buzz, If they are that big, then you can see them and they will be dark (deep shadow) and yes you will feel the tip of the needle passing over them, but measureable......maybe a few thousandths.

The only difference in the Hosford gage is that you use it horizontal, as to being better... Mine is too heavy to be carrying around to different tables. If the seller does not have the wall thichkness written down showing this gun, and does not give you a few days to do so, then you are at his mercy.

As eightbore showed in his use of the gage, you really need two people to use the Hosford gage accurately.
Mine like the Galazsn one, I can rotate the barrels at the same spot and read from top rib to bottom rib and then move the cone and do the same and then flip it over and do the muzzle end.

Last edited by JDW; 09/10/12 12:31 PM.

David