This happened to me last year...

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It was a 70 year old ex US military case from a batch of ammo I pulled.

It was in a stainless Zastava - ie commercial Mauser pattern rifle.

It was very unpleasant. A full face of gas and powder. No brass thankfully. Wasn't wearing glasses, dodged a bullet there.

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The action was full of grit and shidt as well as you'd expect, but I still shot two feral billy goats later that morning.

So the Mauser 98 action too is not infallible. I wonder what the result would have been in another action?