Well, there has been enough magazine tube �detonations� reported in the past 10 years to convince me it can happen. There have been few serious injuries but two incidents come to mind in which there were serious injuries to the shooter.
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It is exactly this possibility that has kept me from experimenting with X bullets in my .30-30.
Instead I went with Hornady FTX, which have been very accurate in my Marlin and provide useful range increases over the 170g Speer and Nosler bullets I was using.
