You may be right I have never had this problem before, I put maybe 60 rounds through it with no problem. I hasn't shot it for about a year before this happened, I shot 15 rounds before the first one blew on me. It scared the mess out of me i thought it took out my eye. I shot 30 more rounds with 3 more failures between rounds. What do u use to clean your barrel? Do they make cleaning rod and patches small enough to clean the barrel or do u just spray cleaner down the barrel.
My son and I did a conversion on a 10/22 several years ago.It ruptured the case and blew the magazine out on the fisrt shot.I cleaned the barrel until it was spotless and it fired fine for about 200 rds.Then it did it again with him while he was squirrel hunting.Cleaned the barrel again and it's still shooting fine.Seems you have to clean the barrel a lot more often than with a .22.
