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Shotgunlover, I do wish that you can complete your gun someday. Someone felt my gun important enough to have the renowned gunsmith, I. M. Crudgington , rebarrel the gun . Mr. Crudgington, along with Mr. Baker, was an author of the valuable three volume set of British Shotgun. I enjoy looking at Mr. Crudgington's work as much as looking inside the gun.
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Darryl,
The cost, around ten thou, is the primary inhibiting factor. I considered a high tech approach after seeing the capabilities of CAD and 3D scanning on Jay Lenno's garage. And using 3D printing to build a working SXS prototype of my own action.
I am pondering whether a 3D scan of the action body would yield sufficient data to build a monobloc and then into that fit Boehler Super Blitz tubes. I have visions of a ribless setup with a detachable sunken top rib in carbon fiber. Asking around I found that such a high tech approach is nowhere near as costly as a dovetail barrrel set made in England.
The approach is unorthodox, heretical to some. For me monobloc is fine, I do not mind the visible joint at all, and ribs, well my views on those have been often posted.
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I suppose that soon your idea , or something similar, will be available. I think my barrels are from the 1960s. My gun is number 2 of 2. Maybe you have #1.
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This is one of those that was just so nicely done, it was a shame, but I traded it off for something else I wanted and I don't even remember what that was. It is a Westley Richards 10 bore with massive barrels and frame, probably built on an 8 gauge frame. It weighed 12 1/2 pounds. It had Kilby barrels and Stanton sidelocks. The sidelocks were like the ones pictured earlier on this thread, jeweled, polished and all the screw heads were aligned.
Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is, listening to Texans..John Steinbeck
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