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It's 21 outside and I'm partially through the news, blogs, etc.
I had a shell go off out of battery in a 1897 shotgun once. I think the flag didn't rise and the primer hit an extractor hook. Scorched my underside of my hat, froze the bolt and rendered it useless. I was clean until that last shot which scored as a miss. My face got peppered with bits of something, but no real harm to me.
 
I examined a duck hunter's pump shotgun where the barrel ruptured. He was shooting heavy waterfowl loads that had been carried to the blind several years in a row. What we figured out was, when he fired, the old plastic hull separated from the brass base and traveled down the barrel, and became lodged part way down the bore. When he fired the next round the barrel was obstructed and Boom!

I saw a similar situation on the skeet field where a $20k Krieghoff blew up due to a barrel obstruction with a reload. That one resulted in a severed artery in the shooter's forearm. Fortunately a trauma surgeon was on the squad and got the bleeding under control right away. Of interest is that the injured shooter was an OB/GYN doc whose phone and pager was constantly going off. He was distracted while reloading and there's a lesson in that. I have shot many thousands of skeet targets and birds with my O/U shotguns and am in the habit of looking through the barrels after every shot

Overcharged ammo from the factory is rare but it happens. In my experience if a shotgun blows up it's most likely due to a barrel obstruction or a reloading mistake.
 
Snowing hard for awhile now..
Not as bad as the folks up northern states, but for Texas, this is going to be about 2-6”, which is rare for us
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