Volleyfire, you just have to understand that Wonko and I like "simple" and love to tease those who drink the shotgun barrel kool aid. I was shooting 90% patterns before plastic wads were being loaded by the big three. As Wonko states, there is nothing new under the sun about shotguns that will do us a bit of good in normal hunting situations. I am very familiar with Daryl's illustration of the occasional Lefever barrel that is truly tapered. However, we Lefever collectors found out long ago that their catalog claim was apparently a reference to the choke area and only by a rhetorical shell game interpreted as "tapered barrels" by the readers of the catalogs. Wonko, thanks for carrying my water.