Thanks for posting the photos I was referring to. Did you notice the way the brass on the fired shell appears to have flowed into the extractor cut and the way the primer is protruding from the shell head? I think that this lends strong credence to the overload theory, however, the barrels do seem awfully thin in the area where the forcing cone should be evident. At any rate one or a number of bad things contributed separately or in conjunction with each other to cause the only unintentional damascus barrel blow up not attributed to an obstruction I have seen.

Last edited by TwiceBarrel; 09/29/13 12:18 AM.