And another one bites da' dust!
Thanks, Steven for that contribution. I always had my doubts about that "striking for balance". I have draw filed octagonal barrels and know the work involved in striking, though I've never attempted a shotgun barrel. Have no need to, someone else has always beat me to it.

Shotgun balance is, indeed, an important issue in handling, but much BS is written about it by people looking for a few more paragraphs. Just like this notion, now, that you can somehow utilize the difference in handling between a comp gun that has steel screw in chokes compared to one that has titanium ones, toward higher scores. Bull!
SRH