"Seems kind of peculiar to me that while Winchester was touting their Winchester Proof Steel, Remington moved away from the fanciful names on their barrel steel."
Researcher, that is interesting, they may have been pursuing a different advertising strategy compared to Winchester. Another thought is that though both Ordnance Steel and WPS are terrifically strong alloys, Winchester Proof steel had an edge in UTS/elastic limit and Remington didn't want to underline that fact.
Also, since as stated in the Parker Book, Ordnance Steel was used in this era Parker guns, maybe Remington had standardized on that alloy for the entire line, is another possible explanation as to why they did not advertise the fact of them having Ordnance Steel — it had become sort of a standard thing by then?
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