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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mtngunr" data-source="post: 4344575" data-attributes="member: 46104"><p>Although inclined to agree with others that it perhaps a hot round or fired out of battery, it really hard to say from photos. It could be something along the lines of action stuck closed and pried/beat/gouged open. You say bolt is intact, no damage, extractor present and in good shape? Extractor should be blown were it a pressure/battery thing, including erosion of bolt face at extractor location.  There is never much metal where extractor cut knife-edges in barrel stub. Where it mine, I'd tie to an old tire, tie string to the trigger, and fire it from a distance and behind a tree or something, see it it held, examine fired brass, look for further damage to barrel/chamber/receiver, function, etc....again, all depending on it appearing to me, in person, to be a prying/gouging effort...if I were convinced it was from a pressure excusion or firing out of battery, I might still do that hoping the gun blew just so nobody else got their hands on it later.</p></blockquote><p></p>