are any of these rifles still in the owners hands?

Yeah he still has his.I work with his brother and he told me that he was going to keep it for now.

Johnny

take some pics of it if possible.. What are the details? load etc?

I'll see what I can do about the pics. From what i got from his brother he had shot the gun earlier in the day while hunting and was going to clean it on returning home so he laid it on the hood of his truck to shoot at his range target thats when it exploded. He was shooting a 90grncharge of loose powder I'm not sure what brand withi think he saidpowerbelts bullet again not sure what grn they were. I'll find out for sure tomorrow and repost it.

Johnny

A metallurgic examination of the barrel by a pro will tell the tale, but I'd bet 9 to 1 the bullet had moved forward in the barrel.

I have to say, it sounds like the load moved. It would be interesting to see how the barrel blew and where.

Semisane

Aaaaaa...

A PowerBelt - move forward - ah come on! couldn't happen could it?

TommyDelvis, where are you?

"I HAD A CVA OPTIMA FOR 4YEARS THEN LAST WEEK IT BLEW UP IN MY FACE,ONLY TO FIND OUT THE SAME THING HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE AND COVERED UP BY PAYINY THE PEOPLE OFF,BUT THEY WILL NOT TALK TO ME. ALL I CAN SAY IS BUY WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD THE MORE YOU PAY THE BETTER YOU GET, BUT STAY AWAY FROM CVA FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY." http://www.mdwfp.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=56455

http://www.mdwfp.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=58485

I searched the web the other night for a TommyDelvis. Found another forum with a user by the same handle and that forum, unlike the one for Mississippi, showed a name for that person. I did a search on the name and found a news article about a fellow in Roanoke, VA that put himself into a coma with chemicals in his basement. He was trying to brew up some rocket fuel.

Now I don't mean to imply that was the same person, and it surely wasn't. I just thought the coincidence was peculiar.

Are CVA's dangerous, VERY much so from a whitetail's stand point.