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The Annoyed Man wrote:Well now you're taking all the fun out of it. That's just mean.

Yeah, I almost felt bad after posting that... but not that bad

Entertaining...Yes. Factual...No. The barrel has clearly been cut with two clean passes. There is no sign of charring, jagged edges, or bulging before the base of the split. Also, look at the bore sight. Anyone who has ever held one in their hand, knows that there is no way it would survive the pressures of a high powered rifle round without turning to aluminum dust. Also, look at the amount of damage to the bore sight vs. the barrel... No way possible. If we still used thin walled pattern welded steels, maybe. However the effect would be a spiral split from the layers unwrapping at the weld points between the two types of steel. No high carbon steels used in barrels today would fail like this with any factory, hot hand load, or even a double loaded round. Would they fail under those conditions, yes. Would they split the barrel neatly to the stock and do no damage to the bolt, stock, scope, or chamber... Nope. That pretty well sums it up IMHO.