I bought a Sarasquetta at an auction that was liquidating the stock from a gun shop hit by hurricane Sandy. It's a 20ga with 26" barrels and a beaver tail forend. The stock was missing and the barrels were bent up. They were bent up about the diameter of the barrels. The barrels had some rust but the side lock frame was mostly devoid of any rust and has about 90% color. No one wanted it and I got it for a song. I built a yoke on my fab table and used a porta power to straighten them. Before I started I was pretty sure the rib would pop or the barrels would separate. But one thing going for it is that this tube set is brazed instead of soldered. When straightening steel you have to push past where you want it because there is always some spring back. So you have to go thru a number of push and check it cycles to get where you want to be. Now the gun has an English walnut stock and rust blued barrels and is not to bad of a little shotgun no one wanted. I can only imagine what happened to it to get in that condition. It's to bad some one didn't try and straighten that Baltimore Arms. I learned something with this 20ga and I would not hesitate to do it again if the need arises.
