Thread: 223 on deer

Originally Posted by Stocky

Id love to know more on the failure as for the action to drastically fail whilst still holding pressure long enough to send the projectile out the barrel. All i can think otherwise is a very hot "factory load" and maybe an oiled chamber etc

That or a faulty action that had heat treat issues or something we just have a bunch of steel shafts at work come in that all had subsurface longitudinal cracking that was revealed once the outer ground surface was turned downed. would be interesting to hardness test the bolt/action.

Yeah always wonder about these scenarios, the tikka plastic bolt shroud does shatter when you have a case failure and gas ejects out the firing pin channel, that can't be good for the eyes.