It's my photo making the bead look off center. It's not. It is 3/8" back from the muzzles.
As a comparison, here are 2 sets of Damascus barrels. Both are exactly the same length (28"). Both have lost the fillers. The muzzles touch on both. The one has the bead almost an inch back from the muzzles. In these examples, the barrels on the left (older set) are opened choked. The barrels on the right that has lost both upper and lower fillers and with the bead further back, looks to be choked full and modified.
