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In light of the recent thread on barrel pitting, I thought I would post this. This was posted on another forum by someone so some of you have already seen it. The gun in question is a WW Greener. It apparently was found in the original Greener case in a realatives attic. The gun appears to be in very decent condition except for the hole in the barrel. The outside of the barrels look good so if this is from internal pitting I wonder what the bores look like? Or could something else have caused this over time? 
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Ah ! the beauty of black powder . Seen similar guns not cleaned prperly then put away for years . Sad but look on the bright side ,you can go out and buy a new gun and keep us poor gunsmiths in the simple nessesities of life .
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if this is a decent 12 ga gun then it could be a candidate for a pair of full length 20 ga briley tubes?
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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if this is a decent 12 ga gun then it could be a candidate for a pair of full length 20 ga briley tubes? Yes, that is one of the suggestions we told the guy about on the other forum. From his other pics the gun as a whole looked pretty darn good.
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How far up? Weld it  ~Shame. T
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I imagine it's pretty far up and out of the high pressure zone, The barrel must have been paper thin before the hole appeared.
Steve
Approach life like you do a yellow light - RUN IT! (Gail T.)
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I remember seeing a pit in a chamber of a Rem 1900 that looked as deep as the Kennedy gold mine.
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an early example of a ported barrel. If its far enough up weld it or just shoot it, depending o what the rest looks like.
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No reason to use such advanced technology. Heck, just thread in a self tapping screw - the shot charge after a few firings will rivet the screw in. 
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