{"id":50704,"date":"2022-02-26T12:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=50704"},"modified":"2022-02-26T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T18:19:30","slug":"scott-blows-up-a-barrett-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=50704","title":{"rendered":"Scott Blows Up A Barrett .50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=50648\">blowing up another Serbu .50<\/a> was not enough to quench Scott DeShields of Kentucky Ballistics&#8217; thirst for <i>science!<\/i> He wanted to see what his super &#8220;spicy&#8221; 190,000 PSI .50 BMG round would do to semi-automatic, gas operated Barrett (I believe that&#8217;s a Model 82A1).<\/p>\n<p>Having lifted a Barrett 50 at a gun show, I can tell you that it is a substantial, heavy piece of steel, and I thought it would withstand the over-pressure better.<\/p>\n<p>I thought wrong.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xRufSjBtJNE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It blew up <i>real<\/i> good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently blowing up another Serbu .50 was not enough to quench Scott DeShields of Kentucky Ballistics&#8217; thirst for science! He wanted to see what his super &#8220;spicy&#8221; 190,000 PSI .50 BMG round would do to semi-automatic, gas operated Barrett (I believe that&#8217;s a Model 82A1). Having lifted a Barrett 50 at a gun show, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":41,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,411],"tags":[3054,1736,2868,7524,8372,2878],"class_list":["post-50704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-video","tag-50-bmg","tag-barrett-50","tag-guns","tag-scott-allen-deshields-jr","tag-tested-to-destruction","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50734,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704\/revisions\/50734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}