DWM vs. Mauser

[Dwight Gruber]

Originally posted by unspellable
Dwight, you didn't say anything about the circumstances or what sort of loads were involved in your failure cases.

Thats because they mostly weren't reported to me during the survey. One response noted two broken ejectors due to hot handloads, and one noted a broken rear breechblock with what appeared to be crystallized metal (a Safe/Loaded commercial).

I do recall one Forum discussion early on about a kaboomed Luger, resulting in a rather spectacularly destroyed breechblock iirc. I can't help but imagine that if something that spectacular were involved in the breakage that it would be noted. Your suggestion also implies that cartridge overload/failure happens much more often than we generally imagine--or would like to accept.

--Dwight