Here's the reason I won't consider replacing the pin on the Lindner Daly. There's just too much risk of damaging the cap screws on this old gun and the engraving and patina just could never be duplicated.

For what it's worth the gun does not show evidence of having been shot enough for wear to have taken it off face. The action is rather light and my guess is some idiot in the past shot a few hot loads through it and stretched the action. Just my opinion. As far as the metal applied in a hook weld, this is a 1890 gun and just about any weld is going to have a better alloy than the steels that were availabe 120 years ago.


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