Originally Posted by Paul Harm
Do you have first hand knowledge of the reason it blew up ? I've always been lead to believe that a gun blown up in the chamber is from over pressure, one blown up down the barrel is an obstruction in the barrel. I'm not trying to start an argument, but just thought a gun blown up from an obstruction maybe shouldn't be shown in a discussion about over pressures.

That would be only two reasons barrels ever blow up, and it would leave out barrels honed too thin, and loads too hot used in those thin tubes. I also saw a Darne that had a crease dent in the barrel, that the GI importer tried to remove with a Peter’s high brass load that resulted in a very neat split exactly where the crease was. Undented, the Darne would have been up to any factory 16 gauge load the fool could have stuffed into it.

Best,
Ted