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Originally Posted by Steven Dodd Hughes
Anyone study barrel weights as in: these are marked 3/13 ("before striking") and now weight 3/5.
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Steven,
In the Spring 2011 issue of Parker Pages, our recently departed friend and author Austin Hogan with the help of a few members did an artical on page 28 entitled "An Old Yankee Adage". In it he compiled a number of stats of which the struck and unstruk barrel weight of a number of guns of various barrel lengths and gauges were listed. In reviewing this information, 8oz seems about average for a 12 gauge in the 28" to 30" range. If your gun were a 26" 20 gauge I would say the 8oz was a bit excessive. If you don't have a copy of this artical and feel it would be useful, let me know and i would be happy to send you a scan for your research. Larry
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