No Brian, I doubt it was corrosive primers. I had a 35 in a 336T and my brother had a 30/30 in 336C and we never 'shot' the barrel out. We cleaned our barrels every now and then. Still, I never really understood why Dad's rifle barrel gave it up, but it surely did, and I just mark it up to years of use and mud and rain and no cleaning (and shallow rifling).
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