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A friend of mine has a circa 1919 Rigby .470 that he blew up a few months ago on a buffalo hunt. A strip of metal he described as 10-12 inches long and 1/4-1/2 inch wide blew out the side of the barrel. They never found it. The guy standing next to him was dazed from the blast.

Dunno who he took it to for repair in the UK, but he was told that monolithic solids in an old barrel were to blame. He had mix of Federal and Kynoch, and does not know which he fired. However, both use Woodleighs.

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LGF, I don't think Woodliegh makes a mono-lithic solid! Superior uses monolithics in their custom ammo, unless you request something else! Federal 470ne are some times loaded with Trophy bonded solids, which are fairly hard! Even if this failier was not caused by the mono-lithic, I simply will not take the chance with a rifle that costs several thousand dollars! There are too many good bullets that are of proven design for double rifles, new, or old!

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