Why would anyone fart around with a sleeved gun:
Because functionally a properly accomplished sleeved gun can be an excellent shooter for the money. All other things being equal the sleeved gun will likely be much less.
The value amplified in part by the number of people prejudiced against owning one.
Further some guns are few and far between, like my pair of Celtic engraved 16ga Alex Martin SLEs. If I would not accept seamless sleeving I would perhaps never own, as in more than a decade of searching I have never seen another Celtic 16ga from Alex Martin.
I understand that aesthetically sleeving can really bother some. It did me on my first sleeved gun, a Thomas Turner best hammer gun, but I got used to it and seams does not bother me much now.
I further note that some sleeved guns were redone with 2 3/4 proofs making ammunition an easier proposition.
