The gun fell and broke the stock as gravity and momentum closed the action?
What he said in the other thread was, the action blew open and that's what broke the stock. I have an Encore muzzleloader, and if it blew open and fell to the ground, I could see how it could easily fall in a closed position like that.
It doesn't really matter though, that photo proves nothing. No one here knows the circumstances under which it was taken, or whether it's an accurate portrayal of what happened. Could have been staged, or it could have been disturbed.
What does matter is that we've been led down the "catastrophic failure" path, talking loads, head space, faulty design and other guns out of tolerance, pressure, SAAMI spec, etc and trying to get more information of same, with visions of Steelhead's vaporized Savage in our heads.
Come to find out by the photo that the gun is actually "intact" by most accounts with the exception of the stock, posts from other forums where the OP can't recite what actually failed on the gun, and only a hypothesis on the mechanism of injury,
Seems awfully light for a 10 year trial synopsis.
Steelhead's right. This is a post by someone trying to defame the plaintiff.
