A lot of guns suffered "bruised" wood, usually on the fore-end, from being used to press down the lower strand of barbed wire to go through a fence. The fore-end damage is sometimes blamed on dog-gnawing because that's what it looks like. I don't see any evidence of the metal being marred though in the pictures. Still I suspect the damage was caused physically rather than by some chemical. Just an unproven opinion, though...Geo

Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 12/10/07 10:03 PM.