This may belong in the stupid questions forum, but I thought it might be more likely to reach knowledgeable people here in the reloading forum. I'm just curious to know what your experiences are with people having a rifle blow up in their face. I know all the warnings about being extra careful of over pressure situations that could result in a mishap, but it seems that I don't often hear about anyone having a rifle blow up on them. I know it happens and I even have a personal friend who had it happen to him years ago. He got away with just some tiny shrapnel in his face and a ruined gun. Could have been much worse, so I guess he was lucky. Anyway, other than this one instance and a few incidents that I've read about, it seems to me that it rarely happens. Perhaps I'm wrong about that, so I'm curious to know what the experiences of others are. It seems to me that with so many newbies joining the ranks of reloaders during the past couple of years, the rate of accidents might increase due to inexperience, but I don't seem to ever hear about it.