Here's an example that happened just today. A friend is looking for a Vintage double for me to restore for him. I found one. I called the seller yesterday and asked all the usual questions, especially about potential faults, both the one's visible in the pictures, as well as the one's alluded to in the description. Then I asked about the non-visible or non-described ones. I walked the guy on the phone through the "Off Face/Loose" check, and he assured me that the action was fairly tight, with only a tiny bit of play. So far, so good. Today, my friend called and got a different guy on the phone. It appears that in reality the barrels in fact rattle when the gun is shaken. I doubt the guy I was talking to even took the gun off the rack, let alone removed the forend. Bottom line is we're still looking for a restoration piece. This was not a small seller. It was a storefront gun dealer.
Last edited by Ken61; 08/12/15 08:34 AM.
