Plasgow, maybe you could do that test and sell the results back to the manufactures to pay for the guns. I think you'd have 6 intact guns. A friend and I were shooting one day years ago in a field with sidelocks. His was using a .45 TC and 70 grians RS. We reloaded, and when he shot, there was a strange sound and his gun kicked the crap out of him. We went down to look at the target, and there was only one hole; mine (50 cal). We went to reload, and he couldn't find his ramrod. I said "you don't suppose that weird sound was your ramrod firing out of the gun do you? We searched down range and sure enough, there it was, burried half its length in the ground with his roundball screwed into the end. And this was no ordinary ramrod. It was a 34" solid brass rod of 7/16" stock. I bet it weighed 1/4 to 1/2 lb and that's 2000-3000 grains! To this day I'm amazed that gun didn't blow.