I still believe that, given the barrels are 1/16' shorter than the 28" the records indicate, coupled with the fact that the matting runs off the end of the rib and that scant few, if any, Trojans were made with barrels longer than 28", this set of barrels was trimmed due to damaged muzzles - not cut and I don't believe they left Meriden shorter than exactly 28". (There are many examples of barrels being longer by up to 1/4" or so than the factory records indicate, but I have yet to see one shorter, from the factory, than the records indicate.)
But that's just one man's opinion - others may differ.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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