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You really think he can raise the dead ?
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Can do jOe. I like the idea of the sixteen gauge barrels if they can be balanced out to feel like the originals. I also think, go with mono steel barrels and have someone do a decent browning job on them. Then shoot the thing.
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Geo.Newburn, here are my thoughts which are worth bugger all but may help ? About 7 years ago I wanted a nice percussion hammer gun for a little black powder fun, I bought it, in original case with some tools and the oldest shot pouch in Christendom, I even shot a couple of pheasant with it but the "breech blocks" , (I donīt know the proper words, maybe Salopian or others can help) were frozen solid so cleaning through solely the barrels into the nipples was all I could do. Before the next season I took it to a friend in a big London gun house and asked him to get it appraised, I didnīt want to blow my hand off. He asked me to visit him and he showed me a dent in the left barrel I hadnīt even noticed. Repair would have cost more than I paid for the gun (GBP1400) so I took it home and thought OK, antique. Funny thing, two years later the chap phoned me up, there is a famous Rolls Royce built for a Maharajah in India that originally had six gun holders on either side which was being used in a film and they needed period guns to go in the car. They paid me GBP2000 for the wall hanger. Thats my advice to you, hereīs a couple of pics of the old Harkom       
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All it takes is money, most anything is possible......
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All it takes is money, most anything is possible...... SKB Why couldnt a machinist take that Boss, cut the barrels off at the end of the chambers and then use the stub as a pattern to create an identical monobloc in modern steel (similar to how stocks are duplicated). Next take the remaining sawed-off barrels and duplicate them in modern steel, but add a sleeve to the end of each barrel to reattach it to the monobloc, then the barrels could be regulated, re-ribbed with the original ribs, rebrowned, and the gun put back into service with barrels made from modern alloy steel. Im not a machinist, is what Im suggesting prohibitively expensive, or just a dumb idea. Steve George I know you want to redo them in damascus and I don't blame you, I was just think this could be a solution if the damascus chamber walls were going too thin to sleeve on damascus tubes.
Approach life like you do a yellow light - RUN IT! (Gail T.)
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It could be done, but as others pointed out, that stuff is very spendy.
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I'm considering ALL of the great advice I'm getting here. Still do not have the gun in hand and Boss & Co is still getting up the history; when I inquired again they assured me I'd not been forgot and that information would be forthcoming.
Maybe the original buyer was the Maharajah who bought the Rolls Royce used in the movie Mike Baily sold his Harkum for. Maybe they'll make a sequel and desparately need my Boss.
One friend provided a nice thought; at least it will not become near the money pit that refurbishing an old boat would be. My 1962 Boston Whaler Montauk, presently at the repair shop, comes to mind. I like that thought, at least the Boss will not need a motor!
With the extra problems that will no doubt accrue to a damascus sleeving, I'm wavering toward a down guage sleeve, probably to 16, with steel tubes that can be browned to maybe match the chamber-block. The jury is still out on whether the old pinfire chambers will support a sleeve, but if they will steel tubes will make for an easier job...Geo
PS: Whatever else I do, if I do get it sleeved, I'll plan to shoot a limit of doves with it at least once every year!
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You still don't have it ?
(if you had bought that thing from me I'd have over night'd it free of charge and prayed like heck you didn't send it back.)
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Funny thing, two years later the chap phoned me up, there is a famous Rolls Royce built for a Maharajah in India that originally had six gun holders on either side which was being used in a film and they needed period guns to go in the car. They paid me GBP2000 for the wall hanger. Thats my advice to you
I think what you had and what George bought is like comparing Pamella Anderson in her prime to Miss Piggy after Miss Piggy had been spinning on a rotisserie for 8 hours.
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After 6 pages of jOe's comments, I'm beginng to think that maybe he is a bit envious of my gun. If you really just don't care for the gun, why not come on out and say it?...Geo
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