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I have bought a project gun. A Boss&Co hammergun from about 1871. I have not even seen it yet, except for pictures posted by the seller in the 'for sale' forum here.
I've never renovated anything and can barely turn a screw. I did however buy a copy of Tony Treadwell's book and must have caught something from reading it!
Foremost, I realize I'm going to need a suitable set of 30" Damascus barrels to have sleeved onto the "decommissioned" set that is on the gun now. I see no point in sleeving modern steel onto this gun. Anyone have a donor set of suitable fine Damascus available for purchase?...Geo
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John his boss has holes in it ground in when sold. I've seen a few sets of damascus barrels on ebay real cheap. The problem is the damascus patterns won't match and you need a good set of donor barrels. i.e. wall thickness and pitless. I salute you for trying to do the damascus route. Good luck.
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Should have stayed out of that Georgia peach wine...
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Keith Kearcher has sleeved damascus with damascus.
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Forget about barrel lining. Sleeving old damascus barrels to old damascus breech ends - now there is a project. Good luck.
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It will be hard not to see the join. I think Peter Dyson in England still has some tubes but they are going to be expensive. I would say the best to to sleeve with steel and with the money you will save go out an buy another Boss hammer gun. Lagopus.....
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Teague barrel lining is no longer avaiable, so I understood.
Is someone else doing it?
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Teague lining wouldn't have worked with these barrels anyway; there's about a one inch square of barrel sawn out of each one, albeit above where the cut for the "chamber block" would be made...Geo
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Should have stayed out of that Georgia peach wine... Georgia peach wine had nothing to do with this undertaking, but I can't argue with jOe's opinion of my "project". Even before Tony Treadwell poisoned my mind with his book, I'd always wanted to bring a good one back from the Cracker Barrell wall of shame...Geo
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