HandgunHTR
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A while back someone did a slowmo video with see through cans made of plexiglass. Most failed within a few rounds, as expected for a can made of plexiglass.
There were no reports of extreme recoil like we see with some of the scythe failures.
I’ve also seen meltdown videos with silencers, obviously ending in can failure. I’ve never seen evidence of massive recoil when it happens.
From a conservation of energy standpoint, all that extra force has to be coming from somewhere other than the cartridge itself.
Meltdown video
See through silencer video
In the see through silencer video the tube launches off the end of the gun at 2:30… No reports of increased recoil. Certainly not bad enough to cause injury.
At the 13-15 second mark of the meltdown video, watch how much that gun starts jumping when the suppressor fails.
As for the see through silencer video, watch from 2:25 to 2:46. Even though it is in super slo-mo, you can see how much faster the rifle starts to travel rearward as that plastic sleeve gets launched. Plus, I would suspect that chuck of plastic probably weighs 2-3oz, vs the 5-6 oz that the chunks of metal being sent downrange from these failures produce.
As for your assertion that the extra force has to be coming from somewhere, it is. That force is normally just blown out in all directions once the bullet leaves the barrel (no brake or suppressor). When there is a brake or suppressor, that is the force that acts on the brake or suppressor to act against the recoil impulse. There is still a significant amount of force that just disperses however.