Min Bbl Thickness - for woods usage (grouse/wc)

[Dean Romig]

Hello Katrina -

.0025” - .0030” barrel wall thickness is generally considered safe for most all upland hunting situations.
You are not likely to dent your barrels except in situations like accidental falling or dropping your gun. Lightly bumping them into trees/saplings in a normal day of hunting will most likely not dent them but it makes sense to check them over while cleaning at the end of a day’s hunting.
Have fun - be safe - and use reasonable low pressure upland or target loads.





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[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Hello Katrina -

.0025” - .0030” .

He means .025 - .030", He's just old

[Wild Skies]

One could put a dent in virtually any vintage gun depending upon how hard you're whacking it into a tree, how hard you've fallen or how unlucky you've been. There are oodles and oodles of vintage doubles with <.025 MWT that have survived a century or more of usage with nary a dent.


Here's what one vintage gun dealer opined in a post in these pages several years ago:
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...8456#post78456

[Woodcock survey]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

He means .025 - .030", He's just old

We are ALL old, so? Most of the dents i have seen in which the cause is known are from dropped while cleaning or falls while crossing stone walls. I have hit many trees without leaving a mark on the barrel.

[Katrina Wood]

Thanks guys for the advice and sharing your wisdom - I will try and not fret too much and I look forward to the joys of carrying a nice light vintage double in the woods!

I fall kind of a lot but especially early season... but I am hard wired to protect the gun... This fall I took a few good diggers but fell straight down on my knees with the gun held up high 😆 so knock on wood I’ve swung into a few trees and bumped into things but never fallen on to my gun or dropped it 🤞

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Daniel Carter

We are ALL old, so?

Not me, I'm not old yet!!!!