Rib matting and cut barrels
Typically the rib matting will terminate just shy of the barrel end and may or may not have a perpendicular cut-off line. I've heard that is not always the case but am wondering just how common it is for the lines to run right off the end of the rib? I just received my latest purchase, a CHE 12 damascus gun which shows in the book as having 30" barrels. The barrels measure exactly
30" but the wavy lines do not stop short of the end.
Here's a picture. What say you?
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