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I had a lower rib let go after shooting a flurry on a warm day. I blaming myself for subjecting the 100+ year old gun to undue abuse. I shipped it off to Keith Kearcher for repair, he said there was rust under the rib and would have let go anyway.
Craig
Last edited by CraigF; 07/25/07 06:34 PM.
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Why do you let it get so hot? All it takes is a little water from your cantine poured over the barrels to cool them nicely and I assure you, from years of experience doing this, no harm will come to the barrels. Routinely doused my Kreighoff when shooting competitively Just pop off the forend first then with the muzzles pointed at the ground pour the water over the outside surfaces starting at the breech area. About a half a bottle of your Perrier drizzled slowly over the surface will suffice if your gun is too snooty for tap water. If you are totally anal, plug the little hole in the bottom rib with a toothpick first. The evaporation of the water from the barrel heat will cool them and insures there is no water left to encourage rust. Remember the reason your barrels are blue is they were boiled in hot water. Besides that you are worrying about the wrong part of the gun with respect to heat. The heat is much more likely to damage the wood in your forend than the soldered ribs.
Last edited by Jerry V Lape; 07/25/07 06:52 PM.
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Warm weather bunker shooters have been known to just take the clubhouse garden hose and run water directly through the bbls. I have seen the rib shot loose on an FN super in South America ostensibly from heat and I have seen the underside of a forearm burnt black on a very high quality double to the point there was smoke. Prudence will allow you to avoid experience with any of that, but when its 90F+ outside and there is much shooting going on it is figuratively possible to melt your fingerprints off, if you are not cautious.
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A nice BTFE would correct all those hot barrels. You see why some of us like them?
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Keep in mind that the solder joint is subject to a cyclical life. The more times and the deeper the cycles, the sooner it will break. I do not know at what temperature the solder might anneal as opposed to what temperatures would weaken it and shorten the cyclic life.
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On the other hand---"Older people shooting doubles in very hot weather MIGHT be a problem" It begged for some "old" person joke... Just had to say it...
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