Thanks for the help guys. I hadn't planned on refinishing the barrels until I found this old bottle of Plum Brown in with my stuff. So far the stock refinish is coming along well so I guess for now what I'll do is pattern and shoot the old smoke pole to see how it shoots. If I decide it's a keeper then maybe I'll brown the barrels. I used to have a Parker with browned barrels and they looked very nice.

Stan, from what I understand if you just give the black barrels time, like 100 years or so, they'll turn brown again!

Thanks again for the help.

Steve

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