That sure looks a lot like a bad load, like one that has way too much fast burning powder. 
The other remote possibility is the reputed kaBOOM from a load that partially fills the case having the primer flame flash across the top of the powder charge giving incomplete ignition and creating a detonation instead. Either way, this is almost certainly an ammo related issue and NOT the weapon.
I do not believe that is a factory American Eagle load either, unless they made one with a serrated jacket.
Plenty of mistimed guns out there shaving and spitting lead and copper without blowing the gun up in a kB. I fired a lot of rounds through a .357 Taurus that would spit lead thrrough the barrel-cylinder gap.
TR
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