One thing we never addressed in this entire thread is the frame size of a sixteen gauge VH. It could have been built on the standard 16 ga #1 frame or on the lighter #0 frame. Lengthening the chambers on the #1 frame sixteen is a viable option (though not necessarily desirable) but is ill-advised on a #0 frame sixteen because the the barrels would have been filed considearbly thinner and there is generally just enough metal in the barrel walls at the area of the forcing cones for the short chambers and to lengthen such chambers is to invite disaster.
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