I too think that if we were to look very closely at more barrels like this, we may find that some of the lines may terminate just a hair before or at the end of the rib instead of going right off the end.
I wonder if any documentation exists about the operation of the rib mating machine. Does anyone know of the location of the machine today if it still exists? I know that Lefever Arms had it after Remington.
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B. Dudley
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