If it was done well (well struck-down to a proper weight & seamless), sleeving per se doesn't bother me. If it takes a neat old(er) gun that isn't useable, safe (or both) and makes it serviceable again, hooray! With that said, however, the rule of thumb at my previous employer was fairly simple, sleeved guns were priced at 30% below what a comparable gun (ie. same make & model w/original tubes) would be priced at. What bugged me then (10 plus years ago now) was the seemingly regular practice of sawing-off of lovely old Damascus-tubed guns to sleeve them for resale to an ignorant (& mostly American) public who wouldn't have anything to do with Damascus. Another practice was "lining" (instead of sleeving), which seems now to have gone out of favor for perceived liability issues (?).
Last edited by Lloyd3; 01/18/20 08:31 PM.
