Earlier Grade-1 T/A check-hook hammer guns were made with Laminated Steel barrels and Grade-0 T/A check-hook hammer guns were made with Twist Steel barrels. That may be where the confusion in printed literature lies for this particular gun.
It is obviously a Grade-1 gun by the P stamped on the water table. Laminated Steel barrels had generally been phased out nearly two decades earlier, save for a few sets of barrels remaining in the back of the bin in Meriden that were used on very rare occasions until they were gone.
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Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
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George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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