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Must be hard when your reputation precedes you on the internet Ed. Was it a flameout or just a lack of new customers?

I think it was a clean out of pitting on the barrels. In the thinnest area you could still see a few traces of pitting. It is a shame because pitting there was from lack of cleaning or poor cleaning routine. Too many owners seem to only spray on some dreadful WD-40 concoction and wipe down with some nasty tee shirt remnant. Never even touching the bore. I see chambers rusted, and bores like black iron sewer pipes. In a generation any reference to sewer pipes will be mean less to those who grew up with PVC. Guess we will have to say like a set of old barrels. !

I do not believe any of the posters here are showing a negative attitude.
The OP is wishing to learn how to check out what may be a well used product, which may have suffered the ravages of time, user abuse or an incompetent workman.
Such an approach is entirely reasonable.

Jon: Your input on this was especially interesting, and as usual, right on the money. Thanks for taking the time to do it thoroughly. the other Gil

well, ky jon, my reputation on the internet among buyers and sellers is excellent...

on gunbroker alone, it is approaching 17000 positive feedbacks over a 20 year period...

do you have any feedback to share with us...from anywhere? by anyone? about anything?

Mike, I agree- if some gun show promoter tried to "evict" me after I paid my entrance fee at the door, because I had the cojones to question any table dealers word, there would be a real brewha-ha.. Case in point- Local show at fairgrounds, Hastings MI 16 years ago. Table dealer had a few fair to midlin' small bore side=by-sides on his table, one was a later Series Ithaca NID 20-- SST, AE, VR= nice wood, but barrels looked "odd' to me, so I asked permission to pick it up, nice feel, but when I laid it back on his table, and pulled out my small Stanley pocket tape to check the barrel length- the dealer acted flustered, and spluttered, Oh that's OK, no need to measure, they are the standard 28" that comes with the optional VR on later series NID Ithacas- OK- but I was already "there" guess what- the taped a 25&5/8" even--what a surprise. I told the dealer I'll pass- he was asking $2500.00-- but would take my Stanley tape to the lumberyard back home for "Recallibration"--RWTF

Ed, your reputation among us, is not so well renowned. Your nick name instead of being Rocketman , ought to be Tourchman for your history of torching beaters, to make them look pretty for suckers to buy and them get defensive when called out about it. As to feedbacks on GunBroker, I have seen many negative feedback just disappear, so I put very little value in feedbacks when the negative ones get purged too often. The term Caveat Emptor ought to be the first words in every transaction, and might be your family motto. Do you understand how I feel about you better now. If you have any questions I would be glad to continue.

ky, oh, hit souns like you wanna play...

well then, i will repeat my question to you:

"do you have any feedback to share with us...from anywhere? by anyone? about anything?"

hell, we dont even know who or what you are...

Go away, Ed. Just go away. I wouldn't buy anything from you, ever, under any conditions.

prof...not sellin here...

but if i were, it would certainly not be to the likes of you...

not even if you sent dave your back dues, for the priv ledge of pon tif ah catin here...

knives out...

come on boys, cant member last time we had a good joust...