Very nice! On the A-2 Smith, is that finish "browned" from original or has it changed over time? I had thought that American guns were predominately black & white originally.
Met with my 'smith yesterday ands we went over my 1891 No. 1 gun together. He completely agreed with me, those tubes are quite stout(!), he also dismissed my concerns about some nascent cracks developing behind the left lock-plate. So...I took it to the closest range and ran a box of shells through it (I screwed up and forgot the nice, mild stuff I had picked out for my 1st time out with it and had to buy some fairly-warm Remington "Handicap" 1 1/8 ounce target loads at the range). It shoots clays with abandon & the recoil was very manageable (for me, that shorter LOP [@14 LOP] could benefit from a cinch-on pad for a little extra length, which I ordered online right after). The tubes did get screaming hot on those zippy Remington loads and I had no gloves or handguard. I don't remember my fluid steel guns heating up quite so quickly.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 07/30/23 08:58 AM.
