FrankenMauser
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With properly selected components in properly assembled ammunition, in a properly maintained (clean and debris-free) rifle, the risk of detonation is essentially zero.I'm leery of tubular magazine centerfire rifles, since I was a nearby witness to a tubular magazine explosion, from a shooter who was using a Henry Golden Boy in 45 Colt at our range. He suffered puncture wounds to his left arm and abdomen while standing in the offhand position.
Magazine tube detonations can nearly always be traced back to one of three things:
1. Wrong ammunition. (Wrong cartridge, wrong bullet, etc.)
2. Poorly assembled ammunition. (Improperly seated primers, damaged bullets, etc.)
3. Debris in a poorly maintained rifle. (Stick an old, hardened chunk of dirt and lubricant between a 550 grain cartridge and the primer in front of it, and bad things can happen.)
And when it can't be traced back to one of those faults... it's generally because the owner/operator is being evasive and doesn't want to admit that they did something stupid.