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This rifle belongs to a friend. It happened some months ago, and I only have these pics and second hand story. Rifle was a new SA M1Aicon, 14X,XXX I think.

They were shooting Cabela's factory remanufactured .308 ammo from the bench, 165gr bullets w/ Lake City cases. The case blew at the case head, and blew the stock up into several pieces. No known damage to steel parts other than magazine floor blown out. Shooter got blowback, but no injury. This was second shot from rifle, bullet scored hit next to first shot at 100yd.

Owner thinks it did not chamber fully and fired out of battery, does not think it was a slam file. SA took the rifle back and told the owner that the ammo was overcharged or faulty. The chamber was relatively clean, rifle had grease in right places, no obvious defects with ammo or rifle externally.

Pics are not the best, any opinions welcome. Would an out of battery fire be likely? Sensitive primer? Despite being a LC case, I tend to think it could have been a case failure.
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