Did anyone ever come up with a definite reason for that?
Not that I know of. It was TexasCowboy’s rifle and he handled the return to Springfield. The ammo was new and theoretically even I shouldn’t have been able to “operator error” this catastrophe.
If they ever figured it out they were quiet about it.
Springfield paid me back for the surgery that I required and I dropped it after that. Then TexasCowboy got sick and I really dropped it after that.