That does look like a good pipe-fitting job Geo. So what is the correct terminology for that forend? I call those things flotation pontoons. If King's Sterlingworth had one of those babies, it never would have sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean during a blizzard.

Now all we need is a new thread to theorize about the cause of that barrel burst, with maybe some metallurgical analysis and photomicrographs of ferrous contamination or scale that somehow becomes manganese sulfide inclusions. I'd suspect an obstruction... possibly caused by the small graffiti artist who was writing things on the inside of the barrel.

A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.