What’s to explain? Unknown brass failure, probably sizing out of spec (someone else loaded these)

We still don’t have it apart. It’s soaking in Kroil.

You can’t get enough TAC in a 223 case to cause a blowup, or at least I can’t. You certainly can’t double charge it.

It was Hornady’s top load of 24.7 TAC under a 55 grain SP with a CCI41 primer, seated to the cannelur.

What’s not to believe?

What alternative are you proposing?


“Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.” - General
John Stark.