Thanks for the welcome, and the additional information. I guess that the re-proofing was what I was seeing as contradictory info in the proof marks. I had already seen Skeetx's 16ga information - very nice hardware! I had been through the damascus-barrels and littlegun.be sites before I posted up here, mostly so I wouldn't be coming in and asking a bunch of questions that were easy to find the answer to.
I'll have to take it out to the range one day and pattern it. I like the way it handles, and it's a very nice little shooter with the proper ammunition in it. (At some point I may do up some light handloads using fiber wads and a roll crimp to approach what this was really meant to handle.)
This shotgun does need a little TLC; some polishing in some places, and it really looks like my grandfather may have re-stocked it at some point. He was 'farmer-handy', and where the buttstock joins the boxlock it looks like it was hand-carved to *almost* fit the contours. (Either that, or it was just a crappy factory job on what was probably a cheap gun to begin with.) Got a few screws that don't seem to fit right anymore, and a few other little things. The barrels do have quite a bit of pitting (I would not be surprised at all to find that paps had run a few loads of rock salt through it at various times).
Here are a few more photos, including the forestock, boxlock, and the overall firearm:
I don't plan on putting a lot of money into this one, but it will make a nice little project to tune it up a bit and it really is a lot of fun to shoot!
