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It would be interesting to hear from other quality gunmakers, whether they make their barrels to shoot parallel, or to cross.

I am guessing US makers make them to shoot parallel.

What about the English gunmakers?

Other German and Austrian makers?

I need to ask the two French gunmakers what their practice is, as I never asked them, my visits to them being earlier in the trip.

It will be interesting to see and hear from some of the gunmakers on here, or reading on here (PM me if you wish). I will also make enquiries to some of the makers I know in the UK and elsewhere.

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I can only speak for myself not other U.S. makers but I try to get as close to parallel as I can, but that rarely happens. There are to many factors involved to get absolute perfection, changing temps, changing conditions, weight variations between shooters, barrel expansion and contraction, harmonics and any number of other factors prevent achieving absolutely repeatable results. So I tend to try to get close to parallel and settle on slightly converging. As an example the...the 2 Bore Double is 2" center to center of bore line at the muzzles the final regulation is about 1.875" center to center at 50 yards(slightly crossing but more than acceptable for hunting accuracy).

Others mileage may vary but that is how try to do it.

Colin

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