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I once broke one of those receivers by hitting it on the right side rail with a light hammer; it shattered into three pieces. Yet a friend and I had fired a couple of hundred rounds from it the day before.
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Yes, but Jim, do you think that it might have been ready to give after the last round, and you were lucky enough to find it before it was fired again? Probably never know, but it's enough to make your hair stand up just to think about.
Generally, after firing off a round, a resonance can be created from the barrel, back, that could do the same on something brittle, but then again, it would need to reach the correct frequency to effect it. A tuning fork effect if you will.
I had a Remington model 7 years ago, in .22-250, that would ring like a bell after it was fired, maybe for about 3 seconds, and it really affected it's accuracy, so I got rid of it. I wonder what that would do to a brittle frame?