No, you're right John - the barrels should definitely weigh less than the pre-struck weights stamped on the barrel flats of an original Parker.... Unless of course, one subscribes to the theory that the weight stamped was a post-struck weight and included the weight of the finished forend... which I do not.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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