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 Lefever 20 DS barrels, 28" which I was looking for as a project or shooter as is but not as this one is. 13 dents in left barrels, two on right side. But worst of all, two bulged areas where something "raised" the metal. Trashed beyond any repair short of sleeving and how cost effective is that on a DS? Better yet the seller still wants 800 for the gun as is. To me this is like a used car dealer wanting to sell a car after a demolition derby and expecting to get full price for a mint gun. I can deal with a few dents but this set of barrels have just been too abused to trust no matter how easy the dent are to raise and bulged areas always are suspect to my fingers. No way to treat a set of barrels.
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JUNK. Looks like track marks from a bulldozer. Did it get run over?
Socialism is almost the worst.
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Reminds me of an Alex Henry I once bought from a dealer online. I inquired how the bores were and was told they were like a mirror. When it arrived each barrel had over a dozen dents. Neat old gun too but it went back needless to say.
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Wonder what he tried to kill with the barrels? Bobby
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It is a miracle that it didn't blow up on the moron that did this
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bbman3, it looks like a counter top, door or window sill. From his level of determination I say he got the job done. I do not know what is sadder to me abuse the gun has suffered or the fact that the seller thinks these minor dents, to say nothing of the two bulged areas, does not reduce his gun's value drastically. You got a receiver and for end looking for a set of good barrels. One of many thousands. To me it is a 200 dollar gun at best not 800.
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Looks to me like someone didn't realize that he had brought a gun to a sword fight
Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
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I had a worse example than that successfully repaired. However, it was a graded Parker with two sets of barrels, bought very cheap.
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Dents I can fix it is the bulges that scare me the most. I know others will say a dent and a bulge are the same thing in different directions but bulges bother me more. I need all my fingers and just do not see the need to shoot suspect scrap barrels. There are 200+ million guns in the US so I will just shoot ones without bulged barrels until the supply runs low.
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Minor bulges are not a problem, depending on where they are. The same person who repaired a gun "worse than yours" also fixed a bulge for me. It was in a non pressure area and he did an invisible repair to a great gun.
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