I replaced all the screws in a Super Pigeon Grade Model 12 a few years ago that were really boogered up because the older gentleman I bought it from had changed the wood and bingo bango-new gun. Can anyone really tell if that 60 year old CC has been redone if the gun has been used a lot and the newer CC is worn off a little too? Or if a gun was reblued back in the 70s and has been used and worn all this time? I for one am really getting tired of someone looking at a gun of mine and the first they say is, "this has been refinished." Sometimes it is obvious if the metal is worn badly and it has new wood or vice versa. But it is pretty hard to tell a lot of times. I also just sold a cased 1960 Superposed two barrel set and when one guy looked at it the first thing he tried to tell me was the wood had been redone. :rolleyes: So, does it really matter if someone sent a gun back to the factory to have it gone over and it doesn't have the same red oil on it that was there the day it was made? And how can anyone really tell if an odd piece wasn't special ordered? If you like the gun and it has the original wood, I don't think it really matters if someone redid something minor. If you like it and it is original except for something minor like rebluing or refinishing, what the heck. Buy it. You might regret later on that you didn't and you could have made it the way you like it.
