Bolt failing to go into battery....HELPPP!!!!!

[grayfox]

Genuinely curious here - have you seen a neck separate from the shoulder/body? For a while I neck turned in 6.5x47 [bolt gun] to a smaller neck diameter than SAAMI. It was sold on the promise it would be more accurate, but required all cases to be neck turned. I worried at the time about neck splitting or separation. Never happened however and for all that effort it was a less accurate than a normal ream. Probably the quality of the barrel swamped any efforts with the tight neck.

I had a few 6.5 CM cases separate at the neck. But as you say the next round was far and away NOT going into battery.
It was pretty obvious.
'Course this was also a bolt action, but as to neck splitting away, well, I've got the T-shirt...