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Why is it that the water table on the receiver and barrel is almost always on a horizontal plane and flat? I don't think I have ever seen a dissimilar design. Could they not be a curve of some nature that would enhance the overall design and add to the lines of the top of the receiver or side plates or other?
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And who was going to file that action or fit those barrels?
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In some older, mostly Belgian, doubles the water table is curved, apparently as left by the milling process. Along with the hollowed out water table the breech face to table corner was a sharp angle, no radius. The stule proved inferior to the radiused flat surfaces that prevailed in later production.
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The water table in my garden is about three feet down .I don't think its curved though .
I take it you are referring to the action flats ?
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The water table in my garden is about three feet down .I don't think its curved though .
I take it you are referring to the action flats ? +1 I was always taught that they were the "Flats of the Action".
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I've heard them referred to both ways...
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The term "Watertable" has been so long used & become so firmly entrenched, one might as well butt their head against the Rock of Gibraltar as to try to rid the world of its use. To constantly clutter up a thread with pithy remarks about it is "UTTERLY SENSELESS", we all know what is being referred to.
That said there are a few double guns which have neither a "Table" or "Flat" as mentioned in Shotgunlover's post.
On those which I have seen the tubes were simply cut for the lugs on their mating surfaces while remaining otherwise round.
I seem to recall that I have one of these in my "junk" collection but its too early in the morning for me to dig around right now. As I recall though I don't think it is of Belgian make.
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I might have expected some such comment .Just because a term is in common use does not mean it s correct . The point of these forums is to help educate .But you can lead a horse to water ETC. ETC.
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Ah, but dictionaries do not prescribe common usage, they record it!
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