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Unread 06-15-2014, 07:29 PM   #1
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That's because they are on the metric system.
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That's because they are on the metric system.
I don't want to disagree with a gunsmith but I believe most if not all of the 27" barrels I saw or read about on British shotguns were made long before the Brits adopted the metric system. I might be wrong but I think not.
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