1 Response to Savage Arms Under Fire For Exploding Barrels

1. Brittius says:

   December 8, 2017 at 11:21 am

   I was thinking about this, and wonder if any of the rifles were hydro-fired with bores wet with oil or solvent? Not normal for catastrophic failure such as those with barrel bursting. I also wondered if there was any ammunition issues, such as, squib followed by a normal round, or a double charged cartridge, or tinkered rounds with “a little of this, some of that, a pinch of this for good luck”. Why didn’t the pressure relief port vent excessive pressures? I have had that happen. Burned under my eye. Rifle at the time, sang out and there was a crack sound, but there was no barrel bursting.

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