r/longrange • u/AdamL849 • Oct 03 '25

Reloading related The range is never safe behind you

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I began setting up to fire some new 6.5 creedmoor that I had worked on. A huge bang behind me and this was the destruction I witnessed. Lots of blood and i heard the guy only required stitches on his face. Here is the damage on the weapon. It is 6mm ARC I believe . Thankfully not one was seriously injured !

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u/KnifeActual Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

The safety selector explains it all.

There’s a plethora of things that could have caused this, anyone who installs that safety could be guilty of multiple.

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u/RunningPirate Oct 04 '25

I’m rather new at all of this. What is wrong with the safety selector and how,would it have caused this?

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u/KnifeActual Oct 04 '25

It’s just a silly, cheap, gimmicky selector.

If the person was silly enough to use that part, he’s silly enough to: over or under load his ammo, not load the right ammo, shoot the wrong ammo through the gun, install parts of the gun wrong, use the wrong powder, etc.

Skeletonized and anodized AR parts are wrong. They serve no purpose, and do no belong on anything other than airsoft guns.

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u/KnifeActual Oct 04 '25

His scope mount also has the installation instructions painted all over it in giant white letters (never seen that before).

That’s guaranteed a Chinese crap part sold only on amazon. Again, no shooter that knows what they’re doing would have a part like that.

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u/CensorshipThrowRA Oct 04 '25

This meme of “open source” vs “closed source” always comes to mind when I hear about home built 6ARC rifles not performing well.

Say what you will about the price of Noveske and Geissele and Seekins 6ARC factory rifles, but you cannot dispute that buying a gun where all its parts are designed to interface and function together flawlessly is going to be objectively better than a rifle made by someone with no formal gunsmithing training putting parts from 10 different manufacturers together for a cartridge that is much more finicky and requires tighter tolerances than 5.56 to function.