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Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon
after seeing a post of a DHE for sale on this site on a #1 frame with 28 inch barrels (and un-struck barrel weight a bit more than mine) that weighed more than my new purchase, I started to wonder how light Parker could make a 30 inch Damascus-barreled gun.
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If you are referring to the DH (it was not a DHE)I just listed, That gun seemed to me to be a bit heavy at 7lbs 1.2oz. I have a 28" BHE on a 1 1/2 frame, unstruck weight of 3lbs 12, and finished gun weight of 6 lbs 12 ounces.
I think you will find unstruck barrel weights VS gun weight all over the lot. Barrels were made well ahead of an order, and when an order specified a desired finished weight, it was up to barrel finisher to take it down to a near finished weight. Some barrels have more solder than others, and some have heavier walls than others