Rib Matting Terminations

[Richard Flanders]

I think a collection of rib termination photos that is available on our home page is in order. Seems it's an issue that comes up often enough and that there's more variation than folks might have thought. I can contribute one of a 1918 factory cut 26" GHE12. S/N 180459

Change that. We have to date figured that these bbls were cut based on the rib termination, but the muzzles are definitely touching and the keels are there and the gun letters at 26" and they are exactly that, so I'm changing my opinion on this one. It's not cut and just has no matting blank at the muzzle. Make sense?? Here's a picture.

Thanks for starting this thread Bruce...