Old bbls designed for card wadding usually had the bore area (not dia) reduced to a range of 89-90%, thus √(90%.729²) =.692 or .037" constriction. Plug in any other dia you desire. Later guns for more efficient wadding open this to a reduction more on the order of 92%. This gives a dia of .699" or .030" constriction from the standard .729" for 12ga.


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