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    #32
    rrpc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭rrpc


    Mr.Flibble wrote: »
    What difference are we talking about for "decent" vs "standard"?

    What's the best reasonably well-known rifle you know that uses a barrel made out of seam-welded tubing?
    I can't tell you that I'm afraid because I don't think any of the manufacturers (other than the small specialist ones) go into that kind of detail. I worked in the steel business in the late 80s early 90s and came in contact with some of the bigger manufacturers of stock gun barrel in Europe. The material was referred to as DOM (drawn over mandrel) which is a process that starts with ERW (electric resistance welded) tube.


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    Half-cocked
    Registered Users Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    tac foley wrote: »
    Why do you assume that the shooter 'was pushing things close to the limit with homeloads'?

    You can't be basing this throwaway line on anything except ill-informed hearsay.

    Where did I say I assumed? Notice I used the word 'if'.


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    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    rrpc wrote: »
    I can't tell you that I'm afraid because I don't think any of the manufacturers (other than the small specialist ones) go into that kind of detail. I worked in the steel business in the late 80s early 90s and came in contact with some of the bigger manufacturers of stock gun barrel in Europe. The material was referred to as DOM (drawn over mandrel) which is a process that starts with ERW (electric resistance welded) tube.

    I have just spoken with three barrel suppliers here in UK who tell me that ALL the barrels they either supply from [five] American and German manufacturers, as well as their own products, are machine-made from billets of solid material, NOT seam-welded products like longitudinal or spirally seam-welded gas/water/oil products pipeline.

    When I visited the Steyr factory many years ago, the barrels for the SSG were hammer-forged from a machined solid lump that was barely a foot long, but almost three inches in diameter. Going through the hammers made is almost 26 inches long and gave it that characteristic 'candy-twist' appearance. Other companies using the same or a similar technique machine away the spirals - me, I like 'em.

    tac


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