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Originally posted by Atkinson:
I have never seen or been able to "blow a Mauser apart"...I have blown them, but they do "as designed" and swell up and perhaps crack unless you poke a stick of dynamite in them and touch it off...They have soft metal under the case hardening, thus they do not fragment as far as I know, unless they have been monkied with.

A Win. M-70 on the other hand will come apart and fragment and is very dangerous to the everyone in the vicinity, but its very hard to do this and takes and imbecile to do it...like a full case of bullseye..

I would not hesitate to use either and in fact the Mauser and the M-70 are the only two big bore bolt guns I use...I like Sakos in the small calibers like the 222...