Lifter question

[Jay Oliver]

I believe Parker started out calling these decarbonized steel barrels, but Remington was already using that name so Parker switched and used the term plain steel later on.

I also believe that the Parker Decarbonized steel/Plain steel barrels are not as strong as other barrels Parker made(they can withstand the least amount of pressure) as already mentioned. Having said that, if minimum wall thickness is not an issue, there are people who shoot these with light loads.

I have a back action lifter, #171 with decarbonized steel barrels that, I will shoot RST 3/4 Falcon Ultralights as well as my own 3/4oz. reloads. I have also shot square 1oz. black powder loads.

[edgarspencer]

The Plain Steel barrels were re-bored rifle barrels, and there are numerous warnings concerning the pressures they can withstand. The rifle barrels were left over from an unfulfilled war contract, and while they may have been sufficiently strong as rifle barrels, heat treat technology was not perfected, and the material was an very basic alloy, lacking the Si-Mn (Silicon Manganese) for refined grain structure, and also lacking any appreciable amount Cr-Ni (Chrome and Nickel). It was barely steel, by chemical composition.