The wood was sound on the VH20, no prior damage or visible cracks, no oil soaking. It was a standard commercial pressure load, I’d guess about a 9000 psi chamber pressure in order to cycle those semi autos.
The hull had not split, I would have noticed that on the manual extraction. I don’t reload those shells either because they split after a few reloads , some less. I did have one of the many I shot that day split downwardly from the crimp. Those are harder to pull out and noticeable. Not that one.
Brian, we go through maybe 35,000 rounds of Federal Estate 20 ga cartridges over summer shooting at our BSA camp. They are great shells, right priced for us and never a misfire, hangfire, split case or pierced primer. A little dirty with the powder but the boys have to be taught gun cleaning anyway.
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