Do you want to dance? Or do you want to bloody shoot?┬á W&C Scott & Sons, Birmingham: (Leans back on cane.) You kids are all wankers.┬á Not only am I 10 gauge and laminated, I'm walled at. 040', in case the whisky causes you to lose track of the charge. Old school percussion guns with laminated barrels are. Mortimer, Edinburgh:┬á (Sips single malt.) Damned right they are. 035' to take hunting loads worthy of the Black Forest. Robert Faller, Freiburg: (Drags off cigarette.) Ze English are wimps! A gun is a tool for MENSCHEN!┬á There's that one thin spot from wear, down around. 030' will remain reliable, and it's easy enough for anyone with muscle. Luciano Rota, Italy: Pfah.┬á Leeway is good.┬á. The new ordnance steel barrels are proofed at 3 tons pressure and have a minimum thickness of. Williams and Powell, Liverpool: These barrels were replaced in 1954 after 70 years of honorable service. 020' doesn't allow for extra heavy loads or crashing through doors.┬á. Stoeger, Brazil: I am a tactical shotgun!. The conversation with the guns went like this:

020'.┬á Below that you really shouldn't shoot it, and should consider replacement of the barrels, having them relined, or sleeved. What you need to know is that shotguns have most of their propellant impulse inside the chamber, and don't need barrels as heavy as rifles do.┬á So the recommended minimum wall thickness for a shotgun is. A call to the manufacturer cleared that up, and I was good to go. I had some problems learning to calibrate it, because I was way overthinking things. Then, have the barrels been filed and refinished?┬á The bore polished?Īnd given the investment some of these represent-we're talking guns that come in their own custom fitted luggage with their own monogrammed accessories, and a label that notes the maker was 'By Appointment to Her Majesty' (Queen Victoria) and about a dozen princes and dukes, you damned sure either pay someone to check the gun over for you, or get the tools to do it.┬á So I dropped $600 without thinking twice. For example, 12 gauge shotguns might be spec'ed for anything from 2' all the way to 3.75' long shells, and while the longer chambers can take the shorter shells, the inverse is most definitely not true. I just acquired a wall thickness gauge to assist with my addiction to classic shotguns.┬á Before you shoot something a hundred years old (or even fifty), you want to ensure it met proof, hasn't been reamed, compare chamber specs to the proof marks, if any, determine chamber length, load, and wall thickness.

Shotgun barrel wall thickness gauge