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What blew up my gun?
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<blockquote data-quote="K1W1Spada" data-source="post: 1710173" data-attributes="member: 104988"><p>So glad you were not seriously hurt.</p><p>From your last photos I think I can see evidence of stress fractures over time.</p><p>The split faces of the action should all be a single bright steel color if the failure occurred in one horrendous pressure event.</p><p>The pics seem to me to show very dark patches with brighter steel edges a sure sign of pre-existing stress fractures.</p><p>This could match up with your findings of higher than intended loads over time.</p><p></p><p>There has been much speculation on the exact cause with no definitive answer.</p><p></p><p>My suggestion (if you have the means) is to get the action assessed by a metallurgist, It may be showing signs of fatigue cracks (difficult to say exactly from the pics supplied but the suspicion is there)</p><p></p><p>If there were cracks developing It would have severely weakened the action. </p><p>Thus the pressure required to cause the failure would have been significantly less.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="K1W1Spada, post: 1710173, member: 104988"] So glad you were not seriously hurt. From your last photos I think I can see evidence of stress fractures over time. The split faces of the action should all be a single bright steel color if the failure occurred in one horrendous pressure event. The pics seem to me to show very dark patches with brighter steel edges a sure sign of pre-existing stress fractures. This could match up with your findings of higher than intended loads over time. There has been much speculation on the exact cause with no definitive answer. My suggestion (if you have the means) is to get the action assessed by a metallurgist, It may be showing signs of fatigue cracks (difficult to say exactly from the pics supplied but the suspicion is there) If there were cracks developing It would have severely weakened the action. Thus the pressure required to cause the failure would have been significantly less. [/QUOTE]
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