Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 262249)

Reloaded cart, perchance? Could mean metal fatigue from repeated resizing/bullet seating.

And an overloaded .357 puts a lot of unburned powder out the barrel, where it gets to explode like explosives always want, in all directions. Which, as you experienced, includes back your way.

Originally Posted by skippy_ps (Post 262239)

Years ago, I was firing a 357/38 revolver and a little piece of shell casing peeled off and struck me in the face, about an inch below my eye. I know it was part of a brass shell because it stuck in my skin.

Not sure how the heck it came back and hit me but it did. That was enough to convince me.

Murray

Originally Posted by CarlV (Post 262237)

And making fun of middle-class clueless women.

Carl

Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 262249)

Reloaded cart, perchance? Could mean metal fatigue from repeated resizing/bullet seating.

And an overloaded .357 puts a lot of unburned powder out the barrel, where it gets to explode like explosives always want, in all directions. Which, as you experienced, includes back your way.