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gunman,
Good to see you posting again.

Best,
Ted

I purchased a 16 ga Parker Bros DHE that someone ran over the barrels with a truck, and cut them off at 20”. Kirk Merrington sleeved them for me back to 28- superb craftsmanship

Thanks Ted .

Thanks Daryl .Always nice to know someone appreciates your labours .

Mr.gunman where do find sleeving tubes? I have had to use unfinished barrels or orphan barrels to sleeve barrels.thanks mark

We bought our tubes from several manufacturers in Italy over the years . We bought in quantity and had tubes profiled to our spec .

Mr. Gunman, are you or someone you are aware of prepared to do sleeve jobs for paying customers?

Mr eightbore check with diggory .the problem I have had is getting tubes

Sorry but as I retired 7 years ago I am out of touch with people in the UK who still sleeve as several have also retired . I dont know if Kirk Merrington is still in business in the US but might be worth looking .
If you want to go the sending to the UK route which can be difficult with paper work I could suggest a couple of names to try .

I was at the Game Fair on Friday and saw this Westley Richards BLE with an early Westley Richards SLEEVED set of barrels (usefully with 2 3/4 inch chambers) on sale at Francis Lovel’s stand.

The join was neat but clearly visible. I am sure that if Westley Richards were doing it now that the seam would be TIG welded and invisible.

I wonder if in the early 1960’s when the Proof House wanted SLEEVED barrels to be so obviously marked externally that it was felt that there was little point in trying to make the seam disappear.

The price on his website is £1,495 but it was on offer at the Game Fair for about £200 less. Either way it costs less than the current price of a good sleeving job.

Economically it would make no sense to send a boxlock (unless a treasured heirloom) to be sleeved instead of buying a replacement gun, sleeved or otherwise, and that applies here in England, let alone from your side of the pond.

It could be worthwhile for a good quality sidelock if the cost of replacement barrels is prohibitive.