ORIGINAL: sabotloader
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.
Thanks Mike,
You jogged my memory. I've spent alot of time at hpmuzzleloading.com, i just could notplace his name. To be honest, I feel that the savage blow-up couldn't possibly result from a leaky breech plug. When I read his report, i immediately questioned the authenticity. But like you said, "who knows?"
Happy Hunting, Phil