While we're on terminology I & the British will continue to refer to cuttin off a set of bbls, boring out the chambers & inserting new tubes as "Sleeving", not Monoblocking.
Seems to me that depends on whether you're building a gun from scratch or restoring one with trashed barrels. Best to use "monoblocking" for the former and "sleeving" for the latter, to make the distinction clear.
Larry, Just to make it Absolutely Clear, Name me "One"; Just One; instance where any gunmaker has ever built a monoblock set of bbls in which they first ""CUT OFF" a set of bbls. If you had read & absorbed what I posted it would have been very obvious I was speaking of the "LATER" as any fool could plainly see, YOU SEE. That last is a phrase my departed Dad was fond of, but it did sorta fit here.
