Originally Posted by L. Brown
Re the issue of how much metal is necessary in a shotgun barrel: There are various examples of 16ga barrels being fitted to 20ga receivers. The result: A gun that's lighter as a 16 than it is as a 20. And the reason that it's lighter is there's a larger bore surrounded by less steel in order to make them fit. But we don't seem to hear about those guns suffering catastrophic failures.

True, but they were probably pretty heavy 20s to start with. Each case is unique and has to be evaluated that way. ed is just stirring the pot. Again.


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