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A rifle with barrels that have been struck off and re-blacked (as CFA's first Holland was) is nice to look at, but if they were struck off and re-blacked to hide evidence of severe overstressed rifling.....

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I don't think any of us believe it to have been a pressure burst (overload, obstruction, etc.). The hole is way too neat for that, and too free of distortion. Either a flawed or damaged barrel.

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Too many eggs going into one basket there for my liking.
When a barrel bursts it does so because the pressure exceeds what the barrel steel can contain.
The question is, was the steel too weak and the pressure ok, or was the the steel ok and the pressure excessive?

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