Back in school a friend's father made the mistake of loading a 6.5x52mm Mannlicher with the load for a .308 or .300 Mag (I forget the exact caliber).
He had been loading the larger rounds for a customer's deer rifle and then made a couple of test rounds in 6.5x52mm to test out a Carcano he had picked up which had a slight bend in the barrel which he had corrected.
Well he did not notice that he had over loaded the 6.5x52mm rounds and went to test fire the Carcano and the round blew apart the chamber these very super hot loads.Luckily he had held the rifle at the hip for the first test fire.Still some of the fragment from the cartridge and the rifle itself peppered his right upper torso.He did not suffer any serious injury the doctor in the ER said that he was very lucky to have fired the rifle the way he did if he had aimed down the sights normally the doc said that some of the fragments would most likely have penetrated his skull.
Anyway things can happen even when you are careful which is why most smart shooters wear shooting glasses might not stop everything but they will save your eyes from serious damage if something does go wrong.
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