60947 Fires it's last shot
60947 is a grade 2 hammerless 10 ga. 1890. Due to the shortage of
Clays powder I was testing a new load using IMR 7625. I got the load date from John Shanafelt's "Reloading For The Short Ten Gauge". It was 28.5 grains with a psi of 6820, in short a light load. It had a bit more kick than my clays load. On the 13th shot, low 4, I heard a loud boom and felt an impact on my hat and shooting glasses that had me seeing stars. Gun has been fires about 1500 to 2000 round by me with no problems just one of those things. There was a hidden crack in the left barrel chamber just under the rib if I can get these pictures attached you can see it. It was my first and only hammerless (the rest have hammers) and will be missed.
Now to the main question I want to make sure the other guns I have are safe ie no cracks, any and all suggestions are very, very welcome.
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