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I recently weighed the barrels from my A grade A. H. Fox. The chambers had been lengthened to 3" before I bought the gun years ago, and it had been recased and restocked in Bo Whoop style with a 15 1/4" straight hand butt and a semi-beavertail. The 32" barrels weighed 3lbs. 15.6 ounces. They were choked .037" and .038". After using the gun several years I made the decision to let Charlie Boswell open the chokes for me. They are now .015" and .025" and pattern spot on and beautifully. I intend to reweigh the barrels out of curiosity on the same digital scales to see what the weight reduction is. I don't expect very much reduction, and can feel no difference. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what the scales will tell?
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3 lbs. 15.61 oz.
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Considering several years have passed since last weighed, and the sun has enlarged and our orbit decayed, I'll go with them being 3lbs 15.62 if weighed at night when opposite the sun and 3lbs 15.6 during day....unlesssss Jupiter is in the night sky aligned opposite the sun, thennnn they could weigh around 3lbs 15.599998 oz.
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Are you serious? Too much time on your hands? The difference is the square root of sod all, in fact.
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seeing as there is now less metal at the muzzle, that must therefore mean that there is more room for air, and as air is significantly more dense in your part of the world due to the moisture content attracting pheromones and associated carbon dioxide, allied to the impact of the location of the barrels impact on the earths orbit, due to the removal of the metal reducing the prior subsequent orbitting speed by one tenth of .7689 second this therefore would result in the barrels being heavier - simple really. Did any body REALLY read this far???? ;-
seriously though, I would be interested to know the difference - educated guess 1 ounce less !
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Nah, if there's one thing I don't have it is too much time on my hands. Just a big curiosity. It hasn't been a long time since I weighed them, though. I wasn't very clear in my earlier post on that. I weighed them last week and then had the chokes opened. We'll see what they weigh today, when I ride back down there.
You're right about one thing, Jonty. The air is dense here this time of year! Humidity and gnats!
I'm guessing an ounce or less.
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One of the things to consider is, were the barrels oiled or waxed before the first weigh in and if they are oiled or waxed now. If oiled, did you use a 5w oil or a heavier 40w oil?
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Assuming the chokes had parallels not over an inch long the most that could be expected would be less than ¼oz. That is figured from a .729 bore with .015" in both bbls vs .038" originally in both bbls, so will actually be less than that.
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