Welcome to the new PGCA Forum! As well, since it
is new - please read the following:
This is a new forum - so you must REGISTER to this Forum before posting;
If you are not a PGCA Member, we do not allow posts selling, offering or brokering firearms and/or parts; and You MUST REGISTER your REAL FIRST and LAST NAME as your login name.
To register: Click here..................
If you are registered to the forum and keep getting logged
out: Please
Click Here...
I had wanted to hold some of the good stuff for a future article, but realized there is a LONG way to go for a reasonably complete summary SO I went ahead and added what I have here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...EK8OtPYVA/edit
Scroll down to the bottom for the short version summary
Many thanks to Dave Suponski, Ron Graham, Raimey Ellenburg and Walt Snyder for their contributions, and Adam W. Haskins, P. E., Metallurgist at Metals Engineering and Testing Laboratories, METL in Phoenix, Arizona.
Vintage Barrel Steel Composition
Threaded Mode