Edgar,
Funny story. My study may be flawed since obviously I have not looked at multiple guns with stuck barrels. I have only actually stuck one doing the same swap and got them off by removing the screw. It does give you a sickening feeling in your stomach when you do it.
But the others I looked at I used the hypothesis that with stuck barrels they would not open further than they normally would with the forend on. Thus the gauge conclusion. So all ignore my data, please.
I put a set of Fox Sterlingworth barrels on another gun and put the forend of the original gun on them. They fit, but a tight forend fit, and I pulled the screws out of the wood trying to get the forend off. Felt like an idiot, which I was.
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