Gentle men 2 of these S&W 629's have blown up in the same exact way in the last few years at our local handgun range, thankfully no one has gotten hurt! It seems that both blew when shooting handloaded target loads, the theory is that they back burned when fired, just like the 38 special load of 2.7 bullseye, wich I shoot regularly but a handful of guns have turned into handgernades! I notice that all the guns blowing up with low power target loads are all stainless? It seems that there is a weakness in the material, maybe it doesn't have enogh elasticity? anyway yours is not the first or last to blow up, take care Dale in Canada
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