A member of my family who is getting on in years recently took his Charter Arms .38spl out for some plinking. For ammo he ended up grabbing some 10mm handloads that I never used due to a poor crimp. When he pulled the trigger the case split most of the length of the case and then about half an inch from the rim it blew out the around about a third of the circumference of the case. The bullet did get through the barrel and it doesn't seem like any major damage was done. I'm pretty surprised that this didn't turn out worse for him and was curious if this was a "normal" case or if he should have lost some chunks of his hand. Thanks for the info I'll be using this as a teaching tool and want to illustrate how bad this could have been.
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