It's not rifled because it is a shotgun. It is most likely a Stevens product made c. 1920-1950.
out of those two the proto will be better
Stamped on barrel, Barrel and reciever one piece.
Possibly, a copper slug is made for a barrel that has riflings in it and has a straight bore, so if you try to shoot it out of a smooth bore you could mess up the choke, because the copper is solid where as a rifled slug is made of lead which is softer and is hollow in the back side with a plastic piece as a filler to allow for compression. Also if you did shoot a copper slug though a smooth bore it would not be accurate at all.
Two piece barrels allow you to change the diameter of the bore, which lets you fit the paintball better, leading to more accuracy.
A barrel does not have parts per se. You can have sights (front and rear) on a barrel, but the barrel is usually one piece, sometimes two.
What year is 16 gage single shot Springfield barrel and lug forged one piece inside barrel wwdt
".410 or 12MM" and "One Piece Barrel" are marks used by Harrington and Richardson, 1877 to 1985. Diamond Arms was a trade name used by Shapleigh Hardware of St Louis. Your gun probably dates to sometime between the two World Wars.
Diamond Arms was a trade name used by Shapleigh Hardware Co of St Louis from the late 1800s to about 1950. The guns were made by G. B. Crandall, Harrington & Richardson, Hopkins & Allen Arms, J. Stevens Arms Co, and probably a few others. A 410 single shot is most likely a Stevens product. If that statement about one piece barrel actually says "barrel and lug forged in one piece" it is a Stevens. If it says "barrel and lug forged in one" (exactly the same except no "piece") it is by Iver Johnson Arms and Cycle Works.
They were made them from raw materials domestically. The first flintlock firearms were not overly complex, all you needed was a piece of wood (the stock), a bar to wrap metal around to form the barrel, and some hand forged small parts to make the lock (Hence the term, lock, stock and barrel.) With this being the case once the raw materials were being made or parts acquired in the colonies firearm manufacture was fairly rapid, since at the time individual citizens were their own protection from Indians, other colonies, and crooks. The advent of rifling in the colonies takes place in the mid 1700's and is a bit more complex as at the time a rifled barrel used a different process and was not as easy to make as a smooth bore barrel. The knowledge and technology came from Europe. The first firearms for the period 1600-1700 came from Europe. Starting in the 1700's domestic manufacture complimented European import. Even today, while many guns are manufactured in the US there are world wide import of firearms into the US.
they are pretty much identical, both lightweight aluminum 2 piece barrels, take your pick
Yes. a shroud is just a plastic piece that goes over the barrel.
I own both, and I highly recommend the CP.