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tinker
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Reged: 12/03/05
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The remains of an old gun...
01/04/05 06:10 PM

Yikes-

Not really a lightweight there either.

If you still have those barrels, I'd really like to see good photos of the ripped metal. There's a story to tell in there. That metal's got things to say for sure.
Likely that anything that the missing parts would tell would also show on the broken reamains of your barrel.

The wall thickness would be (for the most part) able to be measured as well.

I was on the phone the other day with a contributing editor to one of the more respected magazines featuring this kind of gun. We were talking about damascus barrels and loading for bore rifles.
Blown barrels were a topic of conversation somewhere along the line there, I wanted to hear a real-ass first hand story of a blown barrel.
He couldn't come up with any account of a damascus barrel going haywire in the field, but was able to share with me a story of an american double he'd blown, right about where your rifle went -- ahead of the forend.

That gun had just gotten back from 'restoration'. It had been in the hands of a reputable artist too. The barrels had been struck down to (hold on boys and girls...) about eleven thousandths -.011"- of an inch there.
Whooo-golly that thing was asking for it.

I'm not suggesting that this was the case with your rifle, I don't know squat about what happened the other day with you and your friend, and all I know now about your rifle is what I found looking through your history of posts here on the site.
Your rifle looks attractive, looks like it's been completely restored at some recent time too.

I'd really be interested in seeing what the torn open surfaces of that barrel look like.
I have an english double from the early mid eighties that I'm about to start in on with regulation and load development, soon as next week. It's a ten pound .450 and seems rather sound. I won't be getting near the nitro load pressures you guys were likely working in, but this has me thinking of taking it to the lab for a good dye job, magna flux, and x-ray before I run it.

--Tinker

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My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	CFA	31/03/05 03:45 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	500grains	04/04/05 11:04 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	CFA	04/04/05 12:20 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	500grains	04/04/05 12:36 PM
A warranty won't save your life...	tinker	05/04/05 05:08 AM
Re: A warranty won't save your life...	CFA	05/04/05 02:57 PM
Re: A warranty won't save your life...	tinker	05/04/05 04:54 PM
Just got back from the lab...	tinker	06/04/05 06:34 AM
Re: Just got back from the lab...	CFA	06/04/05 07:31 AM
Re: Just got back from the lab...	tinker	06/04/05 09:10 AM
Re: Just got back from the lab...	unspellable	07/04/05 09:19 AM
Re: Just got back from the lab...	NitroX	06/04/05 02:09 PM
Re: Just got back from the lab...	tinker	06/04/05 05:35 PM
Re: Just got back from the lab...	k80	06/04/05 10:21 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	tinker	01/04/05 03:44 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	unspellable	03/04/05 03:03 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	bonanza	02/04/05 12:20 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	CFA	01/04/05 05:24 PM
The remains of an old gun...	tinker	01/04/05 06:10 PM
Re: The remains of an old gun...	4seventy	01/04/05 10:06 PM
Re: The remains of an old gun...	CptCurl	01/04/05 09:53 PM
Re: The remains of an old gun...	tinker	02/04/05 03:08 AM
Re: The remains of an old gun...	4seventy	02/04/05 09:06 AM
not case hardening...	tinker	02/04/05 09:17 AM
Re: not case hardening...	4seventy	02/04/05 10:26 AM
paper thin barrels and the sweetness of fu*kall...	tinker	02/04/05 11:10 AM
Re: paper thin barrels and the sweetness of fu*kall...	4seventy	02/04/05 01:41 PM
Re: paper thin barrels and the sweetness of fu*kall...	tinker	02/04/05 02:20 PM
Re: paper thin barrels and the sweetness of fu*kall...	4seventy	02/04/05 02:37 PM
Bees' knees and blown barrels...	tinker	02/04/05 02:43 PM
Re: not case hardening...	NE450No2	02/04/05 11:06 AM
Blown barrel	4seventy	02/04/05 04:02 PM
Re: Blown barrel	DoubleD	03/04/05 12:33 AM
Re: Blown barrel	NitroX	03/04/05 03:07 AM
Re: Blown barrel	DoubleD	03/04/05 10:14 AM
Re: Blown barrel	NitroX	03/04/05 11:52 AM
Re: Blown barrel	NE450No2	03/04/05 03:46 AM
Re: Blown barrel	475Guy	03/04/05 06:34 AM
Re: Blown barrel	tinker	03/04/05 07:07 AM
Re: Blown barrel	CFA	03/04/05 02:43 PM
Re: Blown barrel	unspellable	03/04/05 09:31 AM
Re: Blown barrel	NE450No2	03/04/05 12:02 PM
Wm. Evans	unspellable	04/04/05 04:26 AM
Re: Wm. Evans	NE450No2	04/04/05 05:37 AM
Re: Blown barrel	mickey	03/04/05 12:50 PM
Re: not case hardening...	new_guy	02/04/05 09:42 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	SteveH	01/04/05 02:08 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	bwanabloke	01/04/05 03:06 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	ArnoldB	01/04/05 12:03 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	NE450No2	01/04/05 12:20 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	mickey	31/03/05 04:42 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	NE450No2	31/03/05 06:23 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	Bwanaclark	06/06/06 06:23 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	400NitroExpress	06/06/06 05:41 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	Bwanaclark	07/06/06 05:58 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	400NitroExpress	07/06/06 06:28 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	armbar	07/06/06 08:51 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	armbar	07/06/06 08:57 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	400NitroExpress	08/06/06 10:12 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	armbar	08/06/06 12:11 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	bulldog563	17/06/06 01:49 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	NE450No2	17/06/06 06:19 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	500grains	07/06/06 11:41 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	CFA	06/06/06 02:57 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	Bwanaclark	07/06/06 04:20 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	NE450No2	06/06/06 04:49 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	400NitroExpress	06/06/06 07:04 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	4seventy	06/06/06 08:21 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	400NitroExpress	07/06/06 12:24 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	armbar	06/06/06 08:11 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	new_guy	01/04/05 01:16 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	mstarling	01/04/05 02:18 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	mickey	01/04/05 03:32 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	CptCurl	31/03/05 09:52 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	CFA	01/04/05 04:40 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	NE450No2	01/04/05 07:49 AM
The pressure curve...	tinker	01/04/05 08:58 AM
Re: The pressure curve...	JudgeG	01/04/05 09:32 AM
Re: The pressure curve...	CFA	01/04/05 10:27 AM
Re: The pressure curve...	mickey	01/04/05 12:31 PM
Re: The pressure curve...	Will	02/04/05 10:07 AM
Re: The pressure curve...	CFA	02/04/05 12:24 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	CptCurl	01/04/05 08:56 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	NE450No2	01/04/05 09:49 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	bonanza	01/04/05 07:57 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	NE450No2	01/04/05 08:03 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	Chasseur	01/04/05 01:05 AM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	Rusty	31/03/05 07:53 PM
Re: My Holland .500/.465 blew a barrel	NitroX	31/03/05 08:54 PM

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