Wreck-n-Crew
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"all the pressurized hot gas is turned loose inside the locked breech".
Seems a lot of it went forward with the bullet.
"right up there with a bore obstruction. "
Certainly seems like a separated case does not case the same effect (affect) as a bore obstruction
Pressure will escape to the point of least resistance so it's hard to say if the bullet moved forward before or at the same time as the case split.
I only had it occur once in a 556 and really could not tell it happened until the next round did not chamber.
I have to agree.
An overcharge of the wrong powder scares me more than anything.
Anyone remember the THR thread last year where a member mixed up his Tite Group powder with rifle powder and blew his gun up last year? Mangled his hand pretty good and the rifle was in pieces.
Anyhow I'm sure a lot of damage to rifles has been blamed on case head separation when in fact they were overloads. Kind of muddies the water a bit if you ask me.
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