The gun with the barrel hook with punch marks is tighter but on a scale of one to ten about 7. The other with a the replacement joint pin is about 5, neither gun is shootable and going to be kept that way for differing reasons both are black powder and one is a pin fire so if it was made shootable it would have to be put on my shotgun certificate due to UK law, the other is an obsolete calibre. So wall hangers they will stay for their foreseeable future!!!
I was just trying to point out that each repair was acceptable in their own way at their point in time but looking at them at our point in time the least done is the soonest mended because of the high cost of labour now.
And the guidance given to me during my apprenticeship still holds true today “don’t let your attempts at a repair leave what you have repaired much the poorer.”
Also we can only speculate over the cost of each repair or weather the customer was happy with the results.
