Hello 'Obsessed' and 'Gnomon' thank you very much for your interest, our gun is very rigid and with a very low profile action, with this feature and because of the solid construction of the barrels and the action, which is also manufactured from solid, it also has less flex and thus less felt recoil, the 'stock bolt' also ensures rigidity and extra strength throughout the stock.
Long forcing cones are traditionally used to aid in reduction of felt recoil, we dont have that problem. With short forcing cones there is less chance that 'gas' passes the fibre wad therefore resulting in better shot velocity, everyone has their own opinion on this but in essence we dont need long forcing cones.
We recommend fixed choke in the barrels as our guns are proofed for 3" superior steel (fleur de lys proofed) as standard and we dont 'bulge' the end of our barrels, Our barrels are choked to client specifications although we only go to 1/2 choke for steel proof.
The gun is fairly unique the way it shoots as the barrel holes are straight and round to within 0.02mm so this results in less deformation of the pattern, ordinarily when barrels are soldered together this can result in some inaccuracy in the straightness of the barrel holes.
Nial, thank you for your comment, what we forgot to mention is that when the RangeRover was removed from the barrels they were totally straight and are in current use on the demo gun, thank you for pointing this out and Ill put a note of this on the website. Although we do not recommend that this is attempted with our clients guns as it voids the warranty. It was really a test to discover how much deflection would result in the barrels not returning to their original shape.
Gnomon, glad you received the information and will put some pics of lock work on website.
I hope this assists, any more questions just fire away (excuse pun) best wishes
