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    M1 Garand blow up

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    I don't even have to start the vid for this one...steel case, Wolfe brand? Filled with dung of their ancestors and lacquered thickly...touch off and watch out. No thanks...
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    He's got some pierced primers too.

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    Bannana splits strike again

    But it did a hell of a job on the stock no is lucky to have just stinging his hands on a limb here ~ if we have a softer metal like brass case grip the chamber wall then there is a high chance it will not stick but a steel case has no give and pretty much stays the expanded shape after firing....
    Come on Jim ya gotta see the walnut stock it really split from rissole to breakfast time the ol shooter got off lightly I think
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    OK, I watched it again. I have seen it before. How "Convenient" the gunsmith was Cabella's own...? That doesn't matter. Simple anyway, Cabellas sells him sh*tty ammo, they now owe him a gun. Hope he learned not to buy cheap crap. Too bad about the little tanker. It would be hard to convince me to buy any single part for a salvage part now.
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    Well Jim, I think the story in this video is more about how Cabela's and Cabela's contract gun smith did this man a solid and less about what kind or quality of ammo they sell. Tula ammo is great for an AKM or SKS but I would not run it in any other weapon I own. I say hats off to Cabela's for taking care of their customer.
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    And yes, they did withdraw all that ammo when they found out.
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    "Pierced and flattened primers - these are a sign of overpressure."


    How true those words are! So why did the shooter ignore them and carry on shooting until the system finally let go?
    The whole event is an argument in favour of the Germanicon regulation that you must take and pass a course that includes basic safety aspects as a precondition before you can even apply for a firearms licence. I am not keen on being struck by flying bits of other people's guns!

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    I'm too poor to buy cheap stuff

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    Not to buy cheap crap...filled with dung of their ancestors and lacquered thickly
    Well said BAR. Amazing the Wolf Ammo was repackaged as "Herters" -- what a double entendre! Just reaffirms the old adages:
    "I'm too poor to buy cheap stuff" and "Never by cheap shoes if you care about your feet."

    Cabela's did the right thing (perhaps for the moment), but deciding to sell cheap ammo is obviously not wise. I think I saw at least one other cartridge in the video that had a split casing. I'm sticking with the trusted brands after seeing this video.
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    walnut stock it really split from rissole to breakfast time the ol shooter got off lightly
    How I hate to see a beautiful gun like and M-1 rifle split from head to heel. The shooter was lucky. The M-1 had been rebarrelled from 30-06 to 308, so the barrel must have been relatively new, and probably not a cause of the failure.

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    Not Wolf. It's Tula repackaged. Although probably about the same Also, the shooter even made comment about how he should have noticed the signs of over pressurization.
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