Ok I will change the word "best" for the word safest as in most secure.
Chopper lumps require more skill at the execution stage, mostly in judging the temperature right, since the braze that holds the two barrels together runs at a temperature close to the critical temperature for steel, I recall it being somewhere around 650 centigrade. The mere thought that the barrels get red hot in the process worries me. Contrast that with the 200 or so centigrade that melt the solder in monobloc tubes.
Beretta SO series OUs use monobloc barrels, they are generally considered among the best sidelock OUs. Perazzis also use monobloc and they are among the most intensively used doubles ever made, being mostly target guns.
Last edited by Shotgunlover; 01/22/20 04:19 AM.
