Thank you, gentlemen. That's very interesting regarding barrel weight and finish.
Is there a resource, such as Mcintosh's book, to identify what weight barrels a particular forend was intended? I mean by measurements. Or was it not even close to being similar as they rolled out?
How would I identify the barrel weight without the stamp? A weight range?
The barrel weight numbers do not necessarily correspond to the weight of the finished barrels, only the weight of the raw tubes.
Imagine this, a customer orders a gun and orders it to be a specific weight, since the barrels make up a good portion of that weight, the factory man would pull the appropriate weight tubes from stock for the intended finished weight of the barrels.
I doubt that any two barrel sets of the same number would weigh exactly the same.
