Quality of Avis barrels?

[levallois]

I'm looking at a 1903 with an AV - Avis barrel. What is the general opinion about the quality of these barrels? This will be my shooter. Thanks!

John

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[Cosine26]

M1903 AVIS RIFLE BARRELS
*The following information is quoted from “HATCHER’S Notebook” pages as indicated.]
Page 445
*”Unlike burst receivers, which occurred only in low numbered rifles, burst barrels usually occur only in high numbered rifles, or in low numbered rifles that have been rebarreled.
In early Springfield production, the Armory made their own barrel blanks by rolling bars of steel in tapered rollers, so as to make the bars thinner at the muzzle end and thicker at the breech. When production was stepped up at the beginning of World War I, Springfield Armory started buying barrels from an outside source. These barrels were made by taking bars of uniform size and upsetting one end after it was very hot to make the thicker breech section. Some of these barrels were heated too hot in this process and became very weak. Several failures of this kind occurred in barrels made by Avis Rifle Barrel Company, of New Haven Conn. Barrels made by this company are stamped AV at the muzzle.”
Page 210
*”Of course , this condition only occurs in an extremely small percentage of the blanks; perhaps one in two or three thousand, and most of them were detected by inspection or fail of proof. That the danger from this cause is small is evident by the fact that though all guns manufactured at Springfield Armory immediately after World War I had barrels made of this steel, several years passed before a barrel failure occurred which led to the discovery of this condition”
“As there were several hundred thousand barrel blanks on hand at the end of the War, it meant that all barrels to be made for a long time had to be made from this steel. However, once the trouble was understood, every possible step was taken to prevent any defective barrels from being sent out. For the sake of greater safety, Springfield raised the proof charge to 75,000 instead of 70,000 to be more certain of eliminating all faulty barrels.”
It should be inted out that some AVIS barrels were used on NM M1903's
Just some trivial information about Avis Barrels.

[Weasel]

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