One goes bad every now and then; new guns or our old faithfuls. We always want to blame the burst barrel on an obstruction, and that may well be what happed here, but we need to keep in mind that we are sometimes dealing with modern manufacturing flaws or with metal fatigue in the oldies.

Be mindful of barrel obstructions and what loads you use in any gun and at least you will be matching the load to the gun. There is not much we can do about an old gun barrel giving out due to metal fatigue or about a manufacturing defect that gets through quality control and proof. At least failures due to these last two factors are rare...Geo