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Originally Posted by Erick Dorr
You are correct the V Grade refers to the grade of the gun or at least to the barrel grade and not the steel itself. My statement was incorrect. However, I don't subscribe to the notion that PB used a unique vulcan grade of steel throughout its production era. Vulcan Steel on the top rib was a marketing identifier just as V grade was on the side of the lug of late Remington guns. It was a different approach but served the same purpose.
Erick
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To the point I made on my second post on page 2 of this thread - that being that the circle was stamped on the flat in advance of determining what grade gun (and barrel steel, Vulcan, Parker Steel, Parker Special Steel, Titanic...) they would be fitted to. We have seen rough Parker Bros. barrels that have no ribs yet, and have not had the chambers bored to any gauge or shell whatever, and the bores have not been finished either.... they are quite simply 'rough barrels' put in stock until they were needed - yet they had that circle stamped on the barrel flat awaiting the letter stamp for the type of steel they would be identified as according to the grade of gun they would be fitted to.
Yes, various steel compositions were used over the years on Parker Bros. fluid steel barrels - that is a known fact, and quite often dependent on where the tubes were sourced.
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