Joey, you and I have had some emails on this gun and as you might guess I'm a little reluctant to ever get into these affairs. BUT here's my very humble opinion.
If the pits were minor, in the beginning, as you say then very little honeing would had been needed to remove them. I use a Sunnen hone to remove minor pitting and it would take a LONG time to remove even .005 of steel. It's possible that a reamer was used to remove the pits which is a lot like using a .600 nitro express to shoot a mouse...... a little over-guned! It really appears that those barrels were way to thin in the beginning and should have been noted. In any case the barrels should have been measured before any work was done on them to see if problems were already there.
Again, everthing that I've said above is just my opinion and nothing more.
