Good Day Gentlemen:
I posted on ths site about an N.R. Davis gun that had work performed by a well known gunsmith. The thing that bothers me is that when I got the gun out yesterday, I noticed two deep score marks in the left barrel. These are about 1/2" long and are quite deep. They lie about 3" in front of the chamber and both line up in the same plane. These go around the inside of the barrel tangent to the bore.
In my experience wirth machine shop work, these score moarks could be formed by many ways. I can remember where a chip had been "caught"between the cutter and the stock and produced this type of damage. This is the gun in which the gunsmith lengtened the forcing cones without my knowledge. Would the proces of lengthening the forcing cones cause this?
I fired the both barrels once each, killing a pheasant. The gun was cleaned and stored. I never saw any bore damage before the gun had been altered. I never looked for damage after the gun had been returned to me. Why shold I?
I contacted the gunsmith and he suggested that I send him the barrels. My fear is that the barrels are not very heavy and any removal would insure that I now have a wall hanger!
Any suggestions?
Stay well my friends,
Franchi
