I have no doubt that you are having trouble following what I say preacher. That was evident in your first two sentences.
Let me explain it real slow for you...
I'll try to do it in a non-thinkin' way so that a non-thinker like you can grasp it.
Small bites at at time.
You have made the assertion that a metallurgical analysis of a sample of a barrel can tell us much about many other barrels from the same make and model of shotgun. I'll take the time to QUOTE what you said above so that I won't be dishonestly accused of twisting your words:
I said, and believe, that a Hunter Arms Armor barrel analysis from a 1898 specimen would reflect the composition of other Armor Steel barrels for that time period.
Yet in the sentence I QUOTED from you in my previous post, you cited TWO Hunter Arms Armor Steel with dramatically different carbon contents, and unstated quantities of phosphorus and sulfur.
You made my point that one, or a few samples of barrels really aren't going to tell us much about anything except those particular barrels.
Is that simple enough for you?
You then made the point (pure conjecture and speculation) that the Panic of 1907 might have forced Hunter Arms to switch to a cheaper lower grade steel. And let's not forget that you never mentioned that the AISI 1016 tubes were from a 1908 gun until after I confronted you about the great difference in them and the 1045 barrels. But you failed to consider that the same Panic of 1907 would have also forced steel producers to lower their prices as well. Interesting to speculate... but the change confirms my belief that a single barrel analysis is valid only for the barrels that were produced from that one particular heat of steel. And there is no way of knowing what heat any particular barrel set came from... even if the guns were built in the same year or same month. We have no way of knowing how rough tube sets were pulled from inventory. We know that some guns were built out of serial number sequence. As you said, it's your money to waste. But stop trying to tell us that your precious samples have any validity for knowing the composition of any other barrel.
