What to do? GHE 20 ga

[Dean Romig]

10, you haven't given us the lengths of the parallel sections you found on your guns. I hope you intend to post those measurements as they are significant to our discussion.

[Big Friend Ten (BFT)]

Gentlemen,

I will trade you spreadsheets. Hopefully you've entered the data into Excel.

I'd like to see the data from the many guns measured to determine the percentages of Parker with parallel sections a quarter inch or longer. Were there any guns with an inch of parallel section? Is there a higher percentage of fluid steel or later, pre-Remington guns with parallel sections than older Damascus barrels?

My limited sample set of ten sets of 10 gauge Damascus barrels included no parallel sections. It takes a sample set of 50 of like objects to be statistically significant. Only 40 more Damascus 10's need to be measured.

My one fluid steel ten from 1925 has a parallel section which is but one piece of data. The six sets of 12 gauge barrels revealed 50% having parallel sections.

Has anyone sorted results by gauge, grade, or periods of manufacture?

Let's put this into quantifiable data.

Mark

[Dean Romig]

[Mills]

I tend to agree with Brian's post.