... Any by the way..for what its worth...there is a place for "peening" in gunmaking/gunsmithing. For instance.. I know a handful of trained gunmakers who tighten forend irons by doing just that. Never say never.
Dustin
Dustin,
I agree with that method of tightening a forend iron. And like any technique, there's nice work and not so nice work when doing this.
The cleanest example of this was a set of 3 Krieghoff subgauge barrels I had that had been around the block. A gunsmith had used a small ballbearing or similar on each side of the forend lump, and apparently squeezed in a vice or similar process, just ahead of the rear surface, to push metal rearward. Nice and neat, no hammer marks and no shock from hammering that might dislodge the solder/braze of the lump.
