Not only that, but this design has stood the test of time, and passed with flying colors. How many others have you seen that have either the rib extension or underlug breaking loose? In Sherman Bell's Damascus testing, the barrels blew up before any of these brazed joints failed.
In Buck Hamlin's destructive testing of Damascus, a badly pitted old L.C. Smith was blowing open upon firing with extremely heavy "nuclear loads", but the barrels held. I have often wondered how a rotary bolted gun can blow open without either breaking the rotary bolt or the recess in the rib extension. That part was never explained.
