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Put your shot closer to the target.
Several years back there was a W.C. Scott hammer gun floating around that was cased with two barrels I believe one was 40" the other 30". I think a member here owned it.
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Not the extent you were referencing, but I once just missed a hard chromed receiver Zoli SxS with 32" chrome lined barrels in 12 gauge. I bet it would have made a dandy duck gun especially at the price of $399, but alas I was too late and twern't meant to be. I love long tubes and I would love to try shooting a super long tubed gun. It makes me wonder where the balance point would be?
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My buddy loves Valmet O/Us. He has one in the waterfowler configuration with 36" barrels. Has no top rib, but a short rib front and rear. It handles beautifully. I love shooting it.
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My Ithaca NID 10 ga. 3.5" has 32" barrels which I believe were standard. Someone will surely correct me if I am wrong. Gil
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I think if these extra long barrels offered any real improvement to performance that all makers would have pushed them as the latest and greatest. But they didn't and 30" to 32" seems to have been accepted as long enough. But someone who understood human psychology tried to make guns for a very small niche market. A lot of cheap single shots and bolt action guns in this country were offered in this country because "they just shot farther". Passing fads IMO.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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A few years ago, a friend let me shoot his new 34" barreled P-gun. They are loooooooong.
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I have a 32" barrelled Greener GP which is a lot of fun.
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For extreme length, I have a Belgian 10-gauge single-barrel pinfire, with a 49.7 inch false-damascus barrel. The gun itself is unmarked as to the maker, but the barrel has Auguste Francotte markings, and from the proofs and inspection marks it would to date from around 1880-1890. This would appear to be a gun for shooting over or through a wooden stalking horse at sitting waterfowl. Not a gun you’d want to swing!
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There is data in at least one modern reloading book as to the additional velocity per extra inch of barrel length...maybe even broken down by bore. It did not give the point of diminishing returns though (EG .22lr in general gives less velocity in barrels longer than 16" to 18" depending on the ammo and less velocity below that length. The burn rate/quantity of the powder had something to do with as well i think?
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'Long barrels shoot harder' Heard that all the time when I was a kid.
When I finally asked what that meant, I was told to shut up.
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