Eightbore and I believe that side by side barrels are curved in the horizontal plane, like two bananas back to back. My shooting student Joe Wood reports that the gunsmith at Skeets stated that side by side barrels are curved, referring to the curve as "English".

A thread on the Parker board I started on the subject: http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12251&highlight=swamped


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