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Mark, I'm interested in this gun

As for your two questions:

“Do you think the barrels were re-blued?” Seems so to me but there are plenty of experts here (starting with Dustin above) who can answer that definitively.

And …

“Should I get them re-blued?” That’s a purely personal question and should have a subjective answer. You didn’t ask if I (we) would re-blue them. And that’s probably just as well as you’d get subjective answers with justifications. And there’s nothing wrong with that. These are our guns. We’re the stewards of them for this chapter of their existence and then they go on to the next fellow. Make yourself happy and in so doing make yourself part of the history of the gun. That’s good…and good enough.

Meanwhile, enjoy your fine gun in good health.

Really? Not what I need and use for hunting

I love the stool. No chance I would even consider changing it into a gunstock. Leave it just like it is.

Why not just real black? Although expensive at ~$34/lb, it is not that bad, and itis the real thing.

Love what that young man did. But more so, the story. Thanks for the “show and tell.”

JR

Just my opinion.
Based on 35 years of SxS shoot attendance.
Every shoot but a couple that cost a shooter more than $100.00 (including shells) will struggle.

In the LP of MI we have many, mostly well attended, that acknowledge the reality that these customers are cost sensitive.
Fuel, cartridges, targets, and then rooms and meals, push the most ambitious shots away from attending.

The TofT shoot (great venue and people) was a perfect example of reaching too far.

I enjoyed shooting there, but I have good ears, and heard avg SxS shooters discussing it (+ and -)for many years after.

Prove everyone wrong!

You've got to love the knots !!

If you want those barrels to look good again and correct, they’ll have to be polished and all of that old blacking removed. Anything else would be half assed. I don’t like putting new rust blacking over old, worn or heavily patina’d blacking. It never blends right, especially when you look at the barrels in good light. Easier to just strip it all off and start with clean bare metal.

Dustin

SOLD Very respectable DH grade Parker, english stock , skeleton butt, tight and sound. 30 in, full and x-full, 14 in LOP, 2.75 DAH, 1 5/8 DAC.
#2 frame. Discoloration of wood around skeleton butt, and a trace of blemish ( i mean a micro speck ) in the left bore 6 inches from the muzzle. I wouldn't give it a split second of thought, I don't believe it was honed, altered or touched in anyway. Clean survivor.
SOLD

"Cerakote? Really? And you are asking about originality issues?"
I'm not really even remotely considering Cerakote, just put it out there to see what kind of response I'd get.

My real question is do you think the barrels have already been reblued at some point in their life?

I personally will not be doing the re-blue - if it is done, it will be done correctly - it would be sent off to someone that specializes in re-blueing.

That walnut blank will make some nice turkey calls. Several years ago, I purchased a similar blank determined unfit for a gunstock blank that worked out well for making turkey calls. By the time you cut and turn down the wood, most of the imperfections are gone. Anyway, it worked out with the blank I tried.

I SOLD a neat little L.C. Smith -- Grade 3E, 26 in Nitro Steel Barrels, English stock, Monogram grade checkering. Clean and respectable gun. SOLD

Those TV shows where they dredge rivers and find logs that have been underwater for 100 years or more are interesting. Years ago I could have been one of three guys at my club to have a Silver Seitz trap gun made from the same tree of Birdseye curly maple. But at $12,000, I had to pass. 😔

And Winchester 209 primers are back out!! 😊

Slightly off topic but related. You think common reloading powders are expensive, take a look at Blackhorn 209 muzzleloading powder. This stuff has a going rate of $80 to $100 for 8oz's. Even at these prices for a half pound, it's impossible to find & usually sells out as fast as someone gets it in stock.

Looks like no responses so far.
All I know is that the Webley 700 boxlocks have a hinge pin that is not removable, but can be built up with some TiG welding and then ground down to size, which is expensive.

Over to you, gunsmiths...

yeah!

Like my local fireman said, "So many variables." And it says, right in Marc Ret's third post that ammunition is safe, "if it IS NOT IN THE CHAMBER OF A FIREARM. 🙄

Bluing?
I would call that 'patina', the signs of a useful life in the field, many exceptional adventures. Leave it as it is.

You should see the barrels of my 1946 Webley 600 boxlock ...

HB

I always say, "If you wait until you need something to buy it, you pay too much".
Mike

I agree with canvasback about the Cerakote. The blemishes remind me of a blue job carried out in winter(poor) light. The barrels can be de-greased with acetone after disassembly and the barrels re-blued without re-polishing. A couple passes of slow rust bluing, carefully done in good light should do the job, without a lot of time or expense. Polishing is what takes the most time and where the most likelihood of damage lies.
Mike

If I read the number correctly, the tubeset weighed 1410 grammes on the final pass.

Serbus,

Raimey
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