I do a lot of target shooting/hunting and one of the things I do all winter is test new bullets and loads. I had an incident at the end of January with my favorite rifle a case had ruptured, I've had that happen before but not like this. the first thing I noticed was a big punch into my shoulder and an off report then looking down to see a bunch of smoke coming out of the back of the bolt, not good.
It took my gunsmith a while to get to it but he wound up having to cut the barrel off to grind out the casing that had welded itself to the chamber. when he was finally able to get everything apart he pointed out that the bolt had split around the face and into the lugs. The gunsmith was all apologetic about not being able to save the gun and really down about everything that happened but I look at it this way, i was testing the limits and it had a catastrophic failure that could have taken my head off but it didn't I give all the credit to Remington for building something so well that even my dumb ass walked away.
now comes the real fun starting this all aver with a new one.
