Originally Posted by GLS
Here's the video of Jack Rowe peening a British double that doesn't quite need a "rejoining" but barrels rattle when the gun is shaken with forend off. There is no qualifying by him or Porterfield that the method of hammering the rear hook is for inferior guns only. He further states that the method is the standard in the British Gun trade. No reason to believe otherwise. Gil

https://vimeo.com/352928443


The method he is using is peening the bite.Thats for up & down movement of the barrels. Not the hook or rear of the hook. That would be to bring the barrels back to the face. Totally different. The method he’s using is entirely acceptable to slightly tighten the bite. It’s exactly the way a forend is also tightened, by peening the bite.
When someone talks about peening the hook, or giving the bottom lip of the hook a couple whacks… that’s when someone uses a punch to peen the sides of the hook to move material to set the barrels back on the face. Again….not ever the preferred method to put a gun back on the face but acceptable on guns commensurate with the price of the job.
And BTW…he does mention at around the 10 min mark about doing a rejoint on a gun vs the peening method (it’s hard to understand but he does begin to talk about the cost).