Originally Posted By: 2-piper
While we're on terminology I & the British will continue to refer to cuttin off a set of bbls, boring out the chambers & inserting new tubes as "Sleeving", not Monoblocking.


Seems to me that depends on whether you're building a gun from scratch or restoring one with trashed barrels. Best to use "monoblocking" for the former and "sleeving" for the latter, to make the distinction clear.