Great discussion, raising more questions.
I'd hate to think Brit gunmakers would avoid chrome with the idea of a future business in rebarreling....but you just never know.
Do top-line Italian guns (i.e. Fabbri) use chrome? Have heard that Perazzi does.
Just wondering why barrels, the "heart of the gun," wouldn't be made with the highest level of protection.
Most Italian shotgun makers chrome line their barrels. I would hesitate to say all, because I have no proof of that. I wouldn't know about Fabbri, but my Texan friend, mel5141, shoots them and would know.
On another thought about it .............. it just seems to me that all plating is not done the same. The black chrome that some Turkish guns have on the outside of their barrels seems to be terribly different than chrome plating of car bumpers, color and surface finish aside. I cannot imagine what it would take to cause corrosion of any type on that finish. High humidity, fingerprints and sweat won't faze it. Maybe pure hydrochloric acid? I dunno.
I just know I have a lot more questions about chroming of barrels, inside and out, than I have answers. Still hoping to learn.
SRH
