When I was a boy my dad had a field grade 12ga with "smokeless powder steel" barrels that digested at least 3 boxes of Remington high brass heavy field load 6's every year for decades without a hickup. That gun kicked HARD but it is still tight to this day.
At 15 years old, a buddy and I were hunting ducks on the creek. when I fired the Flues, both barrels went off at what seemed like the same time. Thought it had blown up, but it turned out to be a broken trigger spring.
Years later, I had it refurbished. The smith showed me a crack in the receiver on the water table in the thin section on the right side. Welded it up and recase colored it. Still shooting it today although it gets a steady diet of <6k 1 oz loads now.
Unknowingly shot it a number of years after it doubled with the cracked receiver. Assuming that's what cracked it.
Took a lickin and kept on tickin.
12ga field Flues
12ga 1S Flues
16ga 1S 30" Krupp Flues
20ga 1-1/2 damascus Flues
28ga gr2 Flues
Last edited by ithaca1; 01/21/16 06:27 PM.
