No, Wile E. Coyote was not involved in the making of this image, nor was Photoshop.  A contestant in the first USASOC Sniper competition held last week at Fort Bragg had some sort of mechanical malfunction and shortly after he pulled the trigger to shoot, his barrel split right down the middle.  No one knows for sure why the barrel split like it did but I was told that the Armorer is looking into it.