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Someone loaded up his drilling with hot loads and cost himself $3K. This 8X57 JRS was no doubt loaded to the hilt, trying to get 30-06 performance that can be achieved in a strong bolt gun.

This is a Heym drilling, Dural receiver. I've found Heyms notoriously loosen up under frequent shooting of regular loads. Judging from the hinge pin the owner was pushing the gun hard for a while.

I suspect the shooter blamed the failure on the manufacture.

WOW!!°
I've seen a few loose and off face, but that looks like it had a tin cup of Bullseye under a 200 grain bullet, maybe be more than once.
I'm curious if it loosened the solder joints as well.
What a shame.
Bfly

What a shame. Good advice not to “push” drillings.

I’d suspect “S” bullets were at play, maybe even milsurp loads.

S bullets don't hurt J bore drillings. S bore loads in some drillings that were made as light as possible if fired a Lot will loosen them up. The S bore loads were hotter. That's where some trouble lies.

Heym drillings are not my favorites by a long shot. Over half of the ones I've encountered were off face, especially the ones in 270 and 30-06.

This gun shows a history of heavy loads. It's an 8X57JRS.

Now that is enough to make a fella cry!
hate to see needles damage to any gun.

Hate to see that when all he had to do was get a bigger rifle.

Its worthless now

And in general I have found "a bigger rifle" (or cartridge) makes less difference than many hunters believe....

I think the point he was trying to make is that a bigger, more powerful rifle with a stronger action would have been a more prudent and desirable option than pushing this rifle and blowing it up.

He wasn't trying to get into a "general" debate.

Just my take.

Okay. Thanks for your take.

My point (whether it is "the point" or not) is there's a pervasive belief among many hunters who handload that another 100 fps makes huge difference in "killing power"--which is probably why he pushed his drilling too much. What other reason would he have?