Parabola: Thank you.
I've tried to get worked-up about these honed tubes and I just can't. After re-reading Sherman Bell's stuff (from back in the early 2000s) I'm just not that concerned this gun will be a problem, and you're right about the 2-inch guns (I've seen that firsthand). The fact that they're fluid steel likely helps (by adding about 20k psi tensile strengh) over comperable Damascus, but even 17 and 18k wall thickness stuff has passed proof in England and gone on to years of use with no problems. If you have a barrel obstruction, then God help you(!), but otherwise....gun barrels just don't fail without massive (& usually obvious) structural flaws. I would be curious to know though, at what point is a tube just too darn thin? Where is that "no-go" point actually at? Where it dents too-easily?
And finally... I agree that the "Rule of 96'" is well-worth observing, if only for the preservation of any 100-plus year old wood a fine gun might have The "comfort component' is noteable as well.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 12/24/23 08:35 AM.
