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

[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!!!!