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Old 09-19-2017, 07:55 PM
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My vote is an imperfect piece of material that the barrel was made from.
I'd bet not, either there was an obstruction he wasn't aware of or someone gave him a case full of Bullseye. Shooter didn't act like he was at all experienced.

The X Frames are seriously strong. A S&W engineer I've had a number of email correspondence with, phone calls and who worked on the 500 Mag program said he thinks it would take 120-130,000 psi to break one. Don
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