Chuck H.: My apologies. I'm fairly new here and didn't realize that this subject had already been hashed-over in the past.
In a recent post, the matter of wrist thickness and shape was discussed and whether the draw bolt in machine-made guns dictated what the shape would have to be, and/or how thin the wrist needed to be in order to be stable. Another comparison I wanted to get more information on, was the difference of weights and contours between mono-block tube sets and hand struck tubes (either dovetailed or chopper lump). I guess for me the final question would be this: can a machine-made gun be built to handle as well as a hand-finished gun (hand-finished in the sense that more human time is captured in one, as compared to the other)?
I'm not really interested in the cost (although human time is usually what drives the end cost of a gun), but more in what drives how a gun feels (ie. mounts and swings). That dirty word again "balance".
I already know that some non-double guns handle very well, an example would be an early sub-gauge Model 12. Why is that so?
Last edited by Lloyd3; 02/22/13 10:41 PM.
