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08-07-2015, 12:19 PM | #3 | ||||||
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And does not include the forend.
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08-07-2015, 06:31 PM | #4 | ||||||
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This topic will be a source of confusion (hopefully for many generations) but it begs the question "who cares what the raw, unfinished, un-chambered, un-bored and choked weight is?" I'm not suggesting I disagree with the generally accepted meaning of the stamping but I question whether it means as much as the weight of the finished barrels and fore end.
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08-07-2015, 07:11 PM | #5 | ||||||
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With the caveat that I am a complete tyro (at this Parker stuff), I weighed three guns available to me and found the following actual weights.
28ga VH, 28" marked 3^2: bbls only=2#8oz; w/FE=3#2oz 16ga TA, 28" marked 3^5: bbls only=2#12oz; w/FE=3#5oz 16ga Trojan, 26" marked 3^4: bbls only=2#14oz; w/FE=3#4oz It seems to me that there would had to have been a pretty big pile of chips/shavings of removed metal to equal the weights of the fore ends on each of these three guns. Additionally: For whatever it's worth, the percentage weight change on each of the above barrel sets (not including the fore ends) between stamped ("unstuck weight") and actual weight is: 20% for the VH 28, 12% for the Trojan 16 (both fluid steel), and 17% for the TA 16 (laminated steel). Last edited by allan.mclane; 08-08-2015 at 08:59 PM.. Reason: Grammar and additional thoughts and math check. |
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08-07-2015, 07:24 PM | #6 | ||||||
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"It gets thickerer and Thickerer" I have had many a hmmm moment as, I too have weighed many of my barrels, together with their fore ends, from 28 to 12 and, remarkably, found similar results.
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08-08-2015, 01:01 PM | #7 | ||||||
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Hmmmm
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08-09-2015, 07:48 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Has anyone ever weighed with forearm and weight was more than stamped ?
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08-09-2015, 09:04 AM | #9 | ||||||
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It might me interesting to do some weights on barrels with factory beaver tail forends.
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08-11-2015, 08:44 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Just weighed my top lever hammer gun serial 24945 30" barrels without forearm 3lb 15oz with forearm 4 lb 6 oz. Barrels stamped 4 / 6 Kinda strange......
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