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Originally Posted by Bruce Day
All the early lifter action Parker barrels I have seen look pretty stout and have ample wall thickness, and well they should because a common practice was to cram as much black powder in the hull as possible and blast away.
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as long as no one has been to aggressive in "cleaning" them up, they look like pipes, I don't think these have been honed at all
i do stick with lower pressure/lowwer recoil loads for the sake of the wood.
but, my 1904 VH was rebarrelled by Remington with modern chambers, I shot modern 2 3/4 in it (not all that many a year) and this year noticed a fine crack in the wrist of that old wood - i can't prove it- but my guess is stiffer loads didn't help