I was recently visiting the AfricanHunter.com forum and noticed a posting from someone commenting that, "Monolithics have busted double barrel rifle barrels".
Does anyone have any experience and/or comments on this? Why would a solid hurt the barrels, unless you were to fire them at exactly the same time perhaps?
To make a long story short, and readable. Monolithic Solids are hard enough that in some Doubles they can break the solder loose between barrels. Not all are in danger but it is a thing that can effect many rifles.
The best thing to do is not use them. There are enough solids of normal construction to more than cover the need and their is no sense in taking the chance.
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The lighter trimmer English guns have supposedly been ruined by monolithics..or at least that seems to be the rumor, but I have not seen any of them damaged, and I know some folks that shoot BarnesX all the time, but I don't know either way...I have not shot them in English guns, as the English guns are too expensive for me to challange the rumor...
I have shot the GS monolithics with the pressure rings in all my English doubles without cause for concern..I noted that pressure is less than with Woodleighs for instance..I think the pressure ring and pure copper is OK for me anyway.
I have reached a point in my double rifle dealings, where I have become very suspect of all the propoganda and mystique surrounding them as I dispell one rumor after another, at least to my satisfaction...I think most double rifle users cherish that mystique more than anything else, I know I did for many years...
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