Wondering ?????

[Drew Hause]

Thanks again Rich. Please also confirm the chamber length and bore measurements just proximal to the bulges.

The issue is not to dispute Steve's statement, nor to assign blame, but to reach some conclusion as to the cause of the barrel failure.

It is my sincere hope that this will not end as most posts regarding barrel/gun failures, at least on doublegunBBS and trapshooters.com, have ended; with no definitive, or at least learned, explanation. Modern guns sent to the maker for a failure analysis and metallurgical study disappear, and when litigation is involved, details of any settlement are made confidential.

Something like this would be definitive



To be clear, I have found no Specification Diagram for wall thickness from any turn-of-the-century U.S. maker. That information would be invaluable to those of us measuring wall thickness and providing an opinion regarding originality, and safety.

[edgarspencer]

This got my curiosity up, so I measured a set of 0 frame barrels from a 16ga. DH
I was surprised at that variation.

[Fishtail]

2 or 3 thousandths of an inch is pretty tiny.....

[Dean Romig]

The variation left vs. right?

[Daniel G Rainey]

An honest man would have owned up to it !

[Jim DiSpagno]

Someone with short arms, long pockets and a big deficit in the ethics department is cowering the dregs of embarrassment and will say I never sent or recited classified info on my emails