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
Much quicker than that. I've had unprotected barrel segments turn back to brown in about six months or so.
