Brought the gun home today, finally. Very exciting.
Unfortunately the weather is too poor outside, and it's too dark inside, for decent pictures.
I am both pleased and disappointed at the same time. The gun appears externally to be in better condition than the pictures appeared. The bluing is really quite good for its age. However, there is a very tiny dent in one barrel (nothing to worry about I don't think, I shoot my model 1912 all the time with a /much/ worse dent) and the rifling at the breech end of the .30-30 barrel is quite weak. I am not sure whether or not it will be able to grab the bullets in time to get them spinning before they are going fast enough to just strip through the rest of the rifling... The usual-with-old-guns very shallow freckles in the shotgun bores, but they are really pretty good.
I guess we'll find out. :P Hopefully I can post some photos in a day or three.
Last edited by Mr. Polecat; 04/15/18 05:57 PM.
