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This is an e-mail I recieved from my father:


A very good shooting friend of mine from Winnipeg, MB Canada sent me a
> link to these photos in a web album. A Winnipeg area shooter by the name
> of Trent Procter who works for Manitoba Hydro was sighting in his Savage
> muzzleloader rifle and nearly lost his hand. Luckily, he had his hand on
> the scope instead of the forearm when this happened. (Incidentally, the
> Savage is the only muzzleloader that is supposed to withstand the high
> pressures of smokeless powder.)
> I don't know if this failure happened due to a defect in the rifle itself
> or if the shooter perhaps didn't properly seat the projectile against the
> powder firmly. This is VERY important with any muzzleloader, especially
> when shooting black powder.

there are pictures taken of his hand and does not look good.
>

Haven't heard anything about this. That is a heck of a way to ruin a day out shooting..

Scary stuff!

I googled it. Heres what i found.

http://www.hpmuzzleloading.com/Alert2.html

Scary stuff

that include the pictures that I did not

Reading a bit further into the link it seems the breach plug is to blame. Though Savage has been informed of this possible flaw they are still building them the same and refute that there is a flaw.

I would think the company would at least look into this. According to the link, there have been four such incidents with two individuals being hurt. Read the link and click on the link within the link. Talks about one guy replacing his breach plug numerous times due to gas cutting the shoulder of the plug.

If you have one of these, I'd take a close look at it. True, only 4 out of how many of these rifles out there is a very, very small percentage. But would you really like to be the next one? Keep in mind, bean counters are the folks that determine whether there should be a recall on an item, not engineers. If it is cheaper to pay off a few lawsuits than do a recall, guess what will happen?