Here's one with a serious injury. I'm a small town physician. Just recently I had a guy come into our ER after having blown up his Model 700 .300 SAUM. He had several facial wounds. A piece of the bolt face entered his R cheek and went deep. How do I know it was the bolt face? He coughed it out while I was examining him. It went through his face and sinuses and down into the airway. It looked and acted just like a gunshot wound to the face. I couldn't get the bleeding under control and had to send him emergently to a trauma center. He needed blood transusions and eventually had to have a branch of the carotid artery tied off.
He was shooting some handloads his uncle gave him. I talked to the sheriff's investigator later. There was no evidence of barrel obstruction. The action was in pieces, the scope was broken in half, and the stock was in 3 pieces.
