Originally Posted by
falcon
There is no evidence that a Savage muzzleloader ever blew up using a recommended load that was loaded properly. This stuff got started after a muzzleloader "legend" had a Savage blow up after he was fired by Savage.
Unfortunately I left the ram rod in my Savage ML.10 twice and have Double loaded it once. It actually broke my scope mounts. But the Barrel never blew up. I have shot several hundred loads, and hundreds of load after those mistakes. Yes this is very embarrassing to admit but I believe savage deserves credit for basically saving my dum head.