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The Optima barrels are around 18.6 / 0.733 and the Mobil barrels around 18.3/ 0.724 .... or , given Beretta tolerances, thereabouts. The Optimas are probably marketed as slightly overbored.

So if an old gun has been bored u to .740 for reproof its no longer "big in the bore " its now "back bored"? Great marketing wheeze wish I had thought of that years ago !.

 

If a new gun is overbored/backbored the manufacturer can control/maintain wall thickness....if an old gun .729 is bored out it reduces the wall thickness correspondingly!.......and eventually compromises safety!

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Gunman don't forget better patterns and reduced felt recoil, along with steelium for the barrels, if you believe the marketing hype some super metal.

Because that couple of points of a mm work wonders. Funny that my fixed.choke 687 from the 90's and my Gunmark Garbi Royale don't seem to pattern poorly it kick me about. In fact I think the fixed chokes give better patterns. But that's far to old hat for the marketing people.

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Oh yes, "Steelium". Now there's a trick name if ever there was one.

 

If you look at say, a 692, the barrels are clearly marked 'Excelsior HSA' steel which is exactly the same steel used for the barrels on every other factory built Beretta over many years. "Steelium" is in fact their buzzword for the cold forging process they use which is simply a cheaper way to make barrels than boring. They've been using that method for years too and certainly since well before "Steelium" made it's first appearance with the SV10s.

 

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If a new gun is overbored/backbored the manufacturer can control/maintain wall thickness....if an old gun .729 is bored out it reduces the wall thickness correspondingly!.......and eventually compromises safety!

Knew I should have added a couple of smiley faces . IT WAS A JOKE :lol::lol::lol::lol: .

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If there were major advantages in having a shot column slightly narrower than the bore, wouldn’t cartridge manufacturers start using thicker-walled cases, thereby reducing the internal diameter?

 

Does anybody supply cartridges with a range of wall thicknesses, to suit different bore diameters? And if not, have the cartridge makers failed to spot a marketing opportunity, or might have they concluded that back-boring does not really make much difference to shotgun performance?

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So if an old gun has been bored u to .740 for reproof its no longer "big in the bore " its now "back bored"? Great marketing wheeze wish I had thought of that years ago !.

 

Obviously a far too conservative approach ... if you're going to overbore you gotta go overboard and really upsize ...

https://shotgunreport.com/2016/01/27/overbore-velocity/

http://www.chuckhawks.com/shotgun_mysteries.htm

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Obviously a far too conservative approach ... if you're going to overbore you gotta go overboard and really upsize ...

https://shotgunreport.com/2016/01/27/overbore-velocity/

http://www.chuckhawks.com/shotgun_mysteries.htm

I have spent too many hours on barrel boring to want to bore above the absolutely nessesery bore size needed for proof . If you want to go really oversize dont ask me :)

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