Thank you all. Your opinions and information have been a great help to me in understanding what happened and how to improve my reloading. I do tend to run hulls into the ground but Chromax's photo of the federal hull got me to cut down some of my older hulls. While all have base wads those where in very bad repair and went into the trash. I suspect the shell that blew had a crack in the hull and let go in the area of the barrel flaw. Each hull is inspected after shooting and before reloading. Anyway I pulled out all my 10's and checked them again under a very strong light and really took my time, found 16 with cracks wad problems or pin holds. As much shooting as I do all factory is not an option but thanks to your help and suggestions I do it smarter.
If there is another group as well informed and more willing share information I have not met them. Proud to be a PGCA member and look forward to seeing a lot of you at the Southern and yes the hammer 10 will be there.
Dave
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