So I pose this question - Given that fluid pressed steel barrels had been in use since the late 1870's in England, and in the early 1890's or so here in America, and that modern progressive burning "smokeless" powder had come into use during the time when these barrels were in use along beside the far more numerous composite-barreled guns in use.... is there any dependable, documented evidence that ruptured barrels were caused solely because composite barrels (excluding cheap knock-off, low quality guns) could not withstand the pressures of these new progressive burning powders, and that the fluid pressed steel barrels (all things being equal) could? Meaning to say, independent studies, not the hype published by gun makers?
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