Schwing reports it as Larry remembers. No English guns.

The Fox Sterlingworth failed after 80 proof rounds...Ithaca after 56...Parker Trojan went 305... The results for the L.C. Smith firing records have been lost, but it was reported that the gun failed during the proof test. The Winchester Model 21 fired 2,000 rounds and was still in good working order.

There is a footnote that says this information was in the Winchester Repeater, Fall of 1984, Volume 1, pp 12 and 13.

So if things are as they are reported by Winchester there is strength and longevity value to the steel and the processes they used in the 21.

Best,

Mike


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