Barrel wall thickness

[Drew Hause]

Of course

I don't want to give everything away before the article, but this is relevant:

Winchester Nickel Steel from Bethlehem Steel Co. Jan. 1900
http://books.google.com/books?id=Yzh...J&pg=PA181&lpg
Tensile Strength 106,900 psi

Courtesy of Walt Snyder, A.P. Curtis, General Manager of the Ithaca Gun Co. requested composition analysis and tensile strength testing on a section “cut from a barrel made in Belgium” performed by E.J. Stormer, Racine, Wisconsin in 1919. Tensile strength was “about 70,000 psi”.