In the thread titled "Barrel life expectancy?" TXGunNut stated:
My old PPC gun (S&W 586) had a few thousand rounds thru the original barrel and maybe 10K through the first Douglas barrel before I ringed it by chasing a squib out with a round that had powder in it. Best I can figure the third and current barrel fired somewhere in the neighborhood of 200K rounds of PPC target loads (mostly swaged wadcutters) during nearly 20 years of fairly serious competition and practice before I retired from competing awhile back. I suspect it will still hold the 10 ring on a B27 target easily at fifty yards.....just wish I could.
I would like to know exactly the procedure followed that resulted in a ringed barrel. This method of squib removal interests me as I have read of people doing this successfully, with no damage to the firearm. This raises the question as to just what might be safe (if anything) to do. I started this new thread as I did not want to hi-jack the original.
Thanks.