Several years ago Guyette and Schmidt offered at auction in MD a Syracuse eight. I gave it a good look and thought it was a rebored gun but did not get a good measurement of the muzzle. All we have to do to determine whether a "heavy" Syracuse ten can be made into a hard to recognize fake eight is to measure the muzzles to determine whether there is enough metal to bore it out to nominal eight gauge dimension. We already know that the breech and the first part of the bore can be enlarged to eight gauge.
