The only topic I've ever seen on the Campfire that I really knew something sbout. I grew up in the architectural millwork industry and either saw or made every mistake that can be made with selecting, machining, treating, and/or specifying wood.
Damn. Damn. Damn.
I get all ginned up to educate you guys and Savage2005 gets it exactly right, on the first page of the thread. Not fair. John Atkinson also gets it exactly right on the virtue of quartersawn...for any application involving very large, short-lived stress. Like, say, a 416 Rigby being fired. Sorry, but this stuff ain't rocket science. These things have been known and well-understood for well over a thousand years.
So, I kept reading, disappointed though I was.
I am a newcomer here, and thus without bias as to known azzhats. HERE'S THE TRUE RULE: Lee24 is jerking your chains. But, I sure would like to see a pic of that FN/Win70 .375...
