And a admonition to myself about making assumptions.
It would have been simple to check, and in fact it was simple to check, once I doubted my assumptions on what "Stellite lined" meant.
The Stellite liner on a US machinegun is the chamber and part of the barrel, not the entire barrel.
It's main purpose is to prevent throat erosion. That's a bigger concern with machine guns than rifles because of the sustained rate of fire.
Stellite is tough stuff. So tough that there's a procedure for recovering the Stellite liner from shot out barrels for recycling into new barrels!
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