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I don't have a photo site to share pics, but a friend sent me pics of a Kemen O/U with a blown up barrels. It looks like the top of the top barrel blew out, wood behind action came off and I think forearm broke also. It's hard to imagine you could overload a reload enough to cause this kind of damage.
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You can forward any & all images to me & I will kindly post them for you.
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I had a Kemen. It means "Strong" in Basque.
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Let me guess, a trap shooter, and hand loads.
Out there doing it best I can.
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MX 2000 bought 2nd hand. The seller shared that the barrels had been 'tuned', but not that the MWT at the burst was .012"  ![[Linked Image from photos.smugmug.com]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Barrel-Evaluations/Barrel-Bursts/i-NXWTmdX/0/LvH2hTBHg9jFQBgq3dCB8LC2SgqvwM7R8wHdzKvX4/M/Perazzi%20MX-2000%20honed%20.012-M.png) If it looks like this, with a ring bulge, it was an obstruction ![[Linked Image from photos.smugmug.com]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Barrel-Evaluations/Barrel-Bursts/i-dZZpfsx/0/M4K5S2JVHkxDsv3c6TJb75QMCPNfqgCPGSfrH2wtg/M/Obstruction-M.png) The original Armas Kemen ceased operations about 2017, but returned about 2023.
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I don't think these two events have any relationship to each other.
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Out there doing it best I can.
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MX 2000 bought 2nd hand. The seller shared that the barrels had been 'tuned', but not that the MWT at the burst was .012" If it looks like this, with a ring bulge, it was an obstruction The original Armas Kemen ceased operations about 2017, but returned about 2023. Yikes.
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Where, on the barrel, did the blow out occur . . . . chamber, mid barrel, further down bore?
It matters much when diagnosing.
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Bore obstructions can & will happen.
We had a close call shooting sporting clays yesterday. My shooting buddy had one his 28ga reloads have a case separation on the shot. Luckily, he extracts his shells rather than ejects them & on this one only got the brass with about a 1/4" of the plastic case back when he extracted the spent round. The reminder of the hull was about two inches down the bore & had heat fused itself to the bore. It took us close to a half hour with two different cleaning rods to finally dislodge the case from the bore.
I'm just glad that my friend was shooting an O/U rather than a semi-auto. This was on his first shot at a true pair and if this was a semi-auto he probably wouldn't have seen the partial case get ejected & we probably would have had a barrel burst or worse.
I suspect that something along these lines is probably what happened with the burst barrel on the Kemen in this thread.
We just had a close one--be attentive & careful--your health & gun depends on it!
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