A friend of mine has wanted to get into hunting for a while, so when Joe's went out of business he picked up a stevens 200 in .308. well, we shot it today to sight it in. After shooting less than a box of ammo and taking the proper measures to ensure the barrel remained cool, well, the picture speaks for itself.

what a crack! I've never seen anything like that before. The gun had never been fired prior to today and has been fired less than 15 times... what could have caused this? just a factory defect? we were lucky it didn't blow up...