Good to hear the barrels are solid. If the stock split repair holds the butt transplant solves a lot of issues. People fail to understand the value of paint as a preservative on barrels. I have seen other guns which had a paint job that did a very good job of keeping them good after a lot of abuse. One gun was a fowl weather duck gun which must have seen every nasty hunting day for decades and the barrels were like new under the paint layers.ooked like the paint was patched repeatedly as it wore and chipped off.