If the stock had not been cutoff and then spliced, with all the care of his fine metal finishing, that gun would have been a decent buy. He wants $1,200.00 for the gun. If you did not need to replace the stock, then the proper case coloring expense would have been very cost effective. As it is you can not justify several hundred for the recoloring and then several hundred more for a new stock. You would end with over two grand in the gun and never get that much back out of it.
As a shooter is would have been a better buy before the torch. Big Ed1 strikes again.
Thanks Jon. I agree that this particular gun has too many problems. That is why I wanted to take the stock and any other issues out of the equation. I was only interested in what the torch could or would do to alter the metal and that particular gun gave a good visual example of one that had been torched.
Gil, I wasn't sure if "temper" was correct and apparently it isn't. I thought tempering hardened and made steel potentially more brittle. I thought what you described was annealing. I should have paid more attention in school.
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