Hi all,
A little while ago I posted that I found a bullet stuck in the bore of surplus 1888/05. Yesterday I had some time on my hands and decided to scrub that batch barreled receivers down.
Running a cleaning rod through the one that had the bullet in it, out popped the front half of a shell casing. As you can see from the pictures it not like a clean cut or anything.
That leads me to think that the shell blew, and there wasn't sufficient energy to send the bullet out of the barrel.
I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on it.
Cheers,
flophound