Thanks for everyone's interest in this. I obviously won't name the person who casehardened it ( bone and charcoal ) as there is no proof that his process was flawed and I won't harm a man's reputation based on a possibility. I've been moaning about this for several days now and as my wife keeps reminding me, no one got hurt and she even told me to buy a new gun. I closely examined the fired hulls after this incident. Absolutely no difference that I can see. No evidence of excessive pressure. I know anything can happen but I am as confident in my reloading process that I can be that nothing was wrong with those shells. And I also examined numerous other shells that were loaded in the same batch and not a one of them look out of place. The barrels appear okay and maybe I can part out some of the gun at some point and recoup some of my loss. Thanks for everyone's imput.
Last edited by AFG; 10/29/06 03:02 PM.
