Pglasgow
Toby Bridges was the leading spokesman for Savage for several years. He hasa web site High Performance Muzzleloading. He is the person that was shooting the Savage that blew up. Then general accepted thought by Savage and their supporters is that Toby did the deed on purpose, caused the blow up by obstructing the barrel. He was complaining about the design of the new Savage breech plug and again the belief is that he was trying to force Savage to change the design maybe back to the original Henry Ball design.
I really do not know what is the truth, what Toby says or what the company says. The best part is it really does not matter to me because I do not own a Savage ML and if I did I wouldn't be shooting smokeless anyway.
http://www.hpmuzzleloading.com/
Hope this helps...
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http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=84969