Eric,
The barrels of most fine doubles, in order to meet the requirements of of say, a "light" twelve, or sixteen, or twenty would require striking quite a bit of metal off to meet both that requirement as well as producing a quality, well-balanced shotgun. A shotgun that came that way from the factory had absolutely nothing to do with external pitting.
Quite possibly the set of barrels that would require the most striking would have been a 28 gauge on the 0-frame or a 20 gauge on the 2-frame... something along those lines where maintaining balance would have been mostly in the practiced hands of the barrel striker.
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