[Bruce Day]

Either:

A. Parker made the barrel walls thin on the left tube but not on the right.
OR
B. Teague, when they re-laid the rib, thinned the barrel walls excessively at the juncture of the left rib side or I suppose its possible that the boring was not concentric to the barrels.

If A, this is the first one I've seen and I have looked closely at hundreds of Parker barrels. I have also looked at hundreds of Parker barrels from the muzzles and cannot recall ever seeing one where the rib was originally laid off center. Below are two photos. The first is of the muzzles of another damascus (Bernard) 16ga barrel set showing what I have found to be standard Parker barrel muzzle end configuration. The second is of the Teague lined barrels and shows the position of the top rib relative to the barrels and the concentricity of the liners relative to the original remaining barrel walls .

This is the first set of Teague lined barrels I have ever had in hand. I was not familiar with them until a member from Philadelphia posted several times about them and how one could not see the liner joint at either muzzle or breach end. Again, I am no expert, not a machinist, not a gunsmith, not a barrel expert, and maybe somebody else can shed some light on this.