Clearly, guns that are 100 years or better old are often in need of service to the barrels. I don’t know if it is realistic to expect otherwise in light of the UK climate, and that most of these guns have had multiple owners.
New barrels were a thing, a generation or two ago. The whole sleeving thing is not something I am interested in, but, others report good results. But, we are at a point where even that will typically exceed in cost the value of the gun it is performed on.
English, and other SXS guns, are not rare enough, just yet to contemplate sleeving. Would it be so hard to find a gun that doesn’t need so much work to be shootable?
Best,
Ted
