dudley: that is true, but the likelihood of fitting orphan barrels to fox receivers and forends has more to do with manufacturing consistency and production batch lot consistency than it does with barrel breech fitment and lockup...

in addition, fox graded guns were made with different weight barrels, which is one of the reasons it is so difficult to fit barrels from one graded fox gun to the other...whereas, sterlingworths are more likely to have barrels of similar weight and hence makes it more likely that they can be fit from one sterlingworth to another...

what has been your experience in attempting to fit orphan barrels?

Last edited by ed good; 11/30/17 03:52 PM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...