No...not a test.
Just thought it might spark more people to think about why the shoulder area has a machined finish when the chamber and neck still shows intact bluing.
The ground ball ended up a swing and a miss. 
Good shootin'
-Al
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Granddaughter has a bad habit of swinging at really low pitches. She got suckered in to swinging and missed, her coach said to her "okay Tiger, now that you got that one out of your system". I almost fell out of my chair laughing. I returned the favor by yelling at the coach "Ya. even Helen Keller wouldn't have swung at that pitch". 😛
The surface in that image looked flat to me, not angled. I thought maybe someone ran a neck reamer in the chamber but the neck/throat junction didn't look right.
