I did not take measurements. I forgot my bore gauge. I saw old pits, I saw nothing that would suggest it was ever honed, no bright clean bores or anything that gives me concern, I saw full length chokes, nothing that hinted to me that the barrels had been messed with. It had old small pits which I like to see because an old gun that has been neglected and shot a lot normally has pits. Without measuring , the walls looked low 30s to me. I have three other 16 ga's much like this one and am very used to these barrels. You look beyond the small pits and the dingy barrel outside and they were a beautiful set of tightly scrolled damascus barrels that were not made up of short, different pattern segments like you see in some G's.
I don't have a wall thickness gauge, only a bore gauge, but using a bore gauge you can tell if its been bored out beyond nominal, just not how much is left.
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