Wall thickness relative to frame size

[charlie cleveland]

mills i believe that weight had something to do with thickness of the barrel...my light weight guns all have thin barrels....have not measured them but you can tell by eye that they are thin....charlie

[Mills]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

mills i believe that weight had something to do with thickness of the barrel...my light weight guns all have thin barrels....have not measured them but you can tell by eye that they are thin....charlie

You are right Charlie. It seems if they wanted to lighten the weight of gun, they made the barrels thinner.

[Bill Murphy]

We did not measure the wall thickness of 71,767.

[mobirdhunter]

This information probably just confirms the obvious, but I have a GH 12 that has 30 inch Damascus barrels and is built on the #1 frame. It's unstuck barrel weight is 3 lbs 9 oz and the barrels weigh 3 lbs 2 oz. The gun weighs 7 lbs .55 oz. The chokes are .040 in each barrel and are about 4 inches long each. The minimum wall thickness at 9 inches from the breech is .047 for both barrels. This gun letters as weighing 7 lbs.

The barrel strikers could work wonders! Yes, these are factory guns, but when you look at the individual guns, they are much more like custom made than one would think at first glance.

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by Mills Morrison

You are right Charlie. It seems if they wanted to lighten the weight of gun, they made the barrels thinner.

I have seen this being the case with 10 gauge doubles , seems most 10 ga 2 7/8 doubles fall in around 9.5lbs and then sometimes you see the 10lb+ ones and the extra weight is in the barrels .

I think the MWT on my 6 frame 10 gauge is .070 if I recall correctly , but on the smaller 10 gauge frames I see something in the range of .040 most of the times .