Stronger?
I can run Sav 219 at the limit of 30-30 brass.
I have many times bought a trunk full of guns, just to overload them.
The Handi rifle, sav 219, and ruger #1 are the best.
Win 1885 are ok.
Way down there in second place are the Rem 700, Win 70, Sav 110, Mauser 98, Mosin Nagant rifles.
SKS and CZ527 take real damage when I overload them.
The Marlin 336, Win 94, and Win 1873 are so weak looking, I am not giving them a chance.
About 15 years ago I tried to calculate the strength of a Handi rifle. My father, chief engineer of 150 engineers doing military and gun design, and another old guy, mechanical engineering professor explained to me how to calculate hoop stress, shear stress, and section modulus. These are easy calculations that I could teach anyone who got good grades in calculus. Von Misses calculations of when the case is going to fail are much much harder.
