Since I have always been nutty about guns, I probably knew that you shouldn't load pointed bullets in tubular magazines by the time I was ten. In the following 75 years i have read the same warning countless times sometimes with a graphic description of which body parts you were likely to lose if you didn't heed the warning.
I have always obeyed the rule -- only flat nose bullets with the ballistic coefficient of a brick for the ol' 30-30.
Yesterday in a conversation with David Reiss about just HOW flat nosed bullets should be for his new 25-35 to avoid blowing that pretty forend off along with a few fingers. I didn't have a clue, but thinking about the question it occured to me that in spite of all the warnings, in that same 75 years I had never read once a description of a gun actually blowing up for that reason -hmmm? Do you suppose there has never been a novice reloader who somehow missed the warning and pulled some nice sharp GI bullets for use in his trusty Marlin? Or maybe a skeptic who wanted to shoot deer on the other side of the hollow who tried some spitizer hunting bullets? We know that there is alway a certain percentage of folks who "didn't get the word".
Does anybody know of first or second hand information of this type of accident taking place or a reference in a believable source?
Of course you can't prove a negative but David found a video on UTube of a guy doing his best to try. They had a literal blast blazing away with a variety of calibers some with sever recoil without getting the expected disaster.
Do you suppose this danger ,which seem perfectly logical, is just another piece of baloney in the conventional wisdom of gun nuts?
John