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One could put a dent in virtually any vintage gun depending upon how hard you're whacking it into a tree, how hard you've fallen or how unlucky you've been. There are oodles and oodles of vintage doubles with <.025 MWT that have survived a century or more of usage with nary a dent.
Here's what one vintage gun dealer opined in a post in these pages several years ago: http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...8456#post78456
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Thanks guys for the advice and sharing your wisdom - I will try and not fret too much and I look forward to the joys of carrying a nice light vintage double in the woods!
I fall kind of a lot but especially early season... but I am hard wired to protect the gun... This fall I took a few good diggers but fell straight down on my knees with the gun held up high 😆 so knock on wood I’ve swung into a few trees and bumped into things but never fallen on to my gun or dropped it 🤞 |
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Dean Your decimals are in the wrong place .025 = 25 thou. and that wall thickness as you say is plenty safe. As for handling guns safely in the woods the dent depends on a lot of things and the results would be different in every case. If you are swinging on a bird and slam your bbls against a tree they might not dent, but drop your bbla against the corner of a stone fireplace hearth or similar structure on a stone wall then they will probably dent regardless of the mwt
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