Kind of an awkward example, but what would a Parker concept gun look like if it had a pair of blunderbuss barrels mounted up and touching. Do the 26's and 32's touch by design, or pure random luck based on the tubes that got dropped off that morning. Maybe they can be machined to touch as well as change or preserve some convergence angle.
Chances are after being designed and tested someone jigged up a method for production, rather than adjusting bend, choke and convergence angle for each barrel set that was made. Still wondering, if it can't or is barely seen, how did they place, align and preserve the intentionally bent tubes through the makers process.
Edit to add, "flip" I believe is the recoil/rotation/what ever. The gun movement on firing likely has many influences and I can't see it limited to vertical.
Last edited by craigd; 05/11/14 11:26 PM.