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Dam16,
Well done! I love Nash's writing but could not remember Horace's name. He had at least two fellows who worked with him for years at a stretch, but I believe Horace was his favorite, and the one he credited with saving the life of his wife during a storm. It has been decades since I read that book. It was a time that I would love to have seen.
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I would be fascinated to know how a pair of steel tubes solidly fixed together on not one but two sides by soldered ribs would be able to "ring" so massively dampened? I checked this out on several different assembled guns with a brass hammer and all I got was tap tap tap. Maybe Italian steel doesn't have that Limey chimey quality.
Last edited by Wonko the Sane; 04/24/17 12:24 PM.
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But Wonko... traditional lore trumps empirical observation every time.
The only time I've heard barrels ring, actually a fairly low pitch vibration, is when some idiot slams a gun shut. It sounds a tad like a diving board.
I attribute it to a cry of pain.
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But Wonko... traditional lore trumps empirical observation every time.
The only time I've heard barrels ring, actually a fairly low pitch vibration, is when some idiot slams a gun shut. It sounds a tad like a diving board.
I attribute it to a cry of pain. word ! Actually I've had three guns that made a ringing sound when fired. A member of the club I belonged to at the time had one as well and he called it a "singer". The ones I had were two 682 Berettas and a Perazzi MT6 with barrels too long to bother keeping so I have none of the three now. I found the sound irritating enough to justify flipping the lot. I did some serious searching trying to find the source of the ringing and never did find a way to eliminate it. All three are coil spring hammers tho so there is no rebounding element like a leaf spring usually has. I decided that the ringing was from the hammers striking the action. I didn't really try to test that at the time since it was easier to just get rid of them. But some guns do "sing" for sure. Been there, done that.
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Well, I can hear the locks.
A Rottweil has a distinct 'ping'.
Come to think of it, there are several guns I could identify by just the sound of the firing mechanism, but I've never attributed any specific sound to the barrels.
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