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In my experience with a steel-barreled hammer gun, an extremely discouraging sewer-pipe appearance can be cleaned up with only 4 to 5 thousandths off the barrel wall (bore would be 8-10 thousandths overbore when finished. As stated above, the advisability of doing so for a shooter is totally dependent on the bores not having been honed to a faretheewell previously.
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Jack,
Isn't the reamed out barrel more dangerous to shoot than the same barrel with thicker walls and pitting?
In fact what do you achieve by reaming out a pit? Cleaner bores and info about the real depth of the pit? if you manage to ream the pit out?...
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Because you loaded it on Flicker the other day and figured you could use today is a similar experience I had on the Kodack site. I finally gave up and went to Photobucket.com and following the above directions found it simple and it worked every time. With Kodak it worked some of the time and some of the time only I could see the picture.
So many guns, so little time!
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Sliver,
I have always wanted to see answers to that same question. Aside from easier cleaning and maybe being able to retard rate of further pitting, seems just another of those cosmetic things, like reblackening.
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Assuming the "reamed out" bores just clean up the pitting/rust, the reamed bores should theoretically be stronger. In reality, the thin spots in the barrel determine the overall strength in regard to pressure. On a H&H quality gun, the wall thickness of the untouched gun are consistant and therefore, when reamed, the walls should be consistant as well. Either way, the min wall sets the the overall strength, more or less. I say more or less because there are other variables but they are difficult to quantify or inspect for.
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Are there any data or experience allowing one to determine when a pitt is so deep that it will comprimise strength of barrel wall, say reducing it to less than that of minimum wall thickness?
A related question: Is there much of a successful practice of welding/brazing up perforation pits, deep pitts, drilled out pitts in the world of old shotguns? One hears of this being done now and then.
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