During my many years, I have shot at least a few shells through guns having conventional, dovetail, Monoblock, & shoe-lump. I can't recall I've ever shot a chopper-lump. At least on muzzle-loader & one early breech loader were joined together with nothing but soft solder, the rest were brazed, except for the mono-blocks which used soft solder to secure the tubes in the block. "SO FAR" I have not had one to come apart, so all have proved adequate over some 100 + years.
Life is too short for one to use something they simply despise without having to have rhyme or reason. I would love to see some form of
"PROOF" though that a sleeved barrel is definitely weaker than an un-sleeved one. "IF an unsleeved barrel will handle a 20K PSI proof load, how many PSIs will a sleeved barrel handle?
