So sad. It was a pretty gun. Glad you and everyone else are unhurt.

I dunno whether sleeving is the way to go or just plain old rebarrelling using the existing for a monobloc. I know, someone's going to get the pitchfork and torches crowd pic and plant it here, too, but if it were me I'd go the whole distance and just get the barrels replaced. They both should be considered compromised - one empirically proven and the other guilty by association.

Of course, in rebarrelling, you might be able to go to 24 or (better) 28 ga barrels....

As to how it passed proof? That's a good question to be posed in a grave-faced sitdown and show-and-tell at the proof house.

Last edited by Dave in Maine; 07/27/11 05:57 PM.
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