Quebec penal colony
Ouch that hurts, bringing up the good old days like that.
As you will no doubt find out, once the settlers caravanes reach the plains and you can get a fresh 4 months old copy of the Montreal Gazette. Quebec has recently been stripped of this prestigious UN classification.
The recent public enquieries into government corruption having proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the inmates are running the jail, the UN was left with no choice. We Quebekers have responded to the news as tradition requires, by holding 5 referendums and 2 elections and so far the answer is still NON. So commitees are being formed as we speak to study the situation. Democracy is not cheap, but the revenues generated by the recent discoveries of petrol in the western plains of Upper Canada will no doubt help covering the bill.
Meanwhile everyone here is on his best behave in the hope that we will beat Mogadishu in the upcomming UN listings.
Now about stainless steel in pistol compensator. It was used to combat erosion in the baffles between the chambers of a compensator. It never was an issue with the .45, but in the .38 super and other high pressure caliber pushing a light bullet at high speed, it was a serious problem. In 1988 Behlert Precision started brazing stainless steel baffles in their comps in the hope that they would have to replace them less often on high usage guns. Other pistolsmith were no doubt doing the same. A 9x25 destroyed baffles twice as fast as a .38 super or 9 mm major.
This is what the baffles of a 9x25 compensator looks like after approx. 10000 rounds. I think this comp is made out of 4140 and the chambers/ports were sink EDM'ed. Not certain on the metal because I had them made by EGW and George knows a lot more about steel than I do.
P.