While sleeving provides a less expensive solution to new barrels the marketplace has demonstrated a reluctance to accept sleeved guns without devaluation.
A sleeved gun will always have a lesser value and many will not consider buying one. I own three sleeved guns and use them happily, I prefer seamless or near invisible seams, but functionally they are no different than visible seams.
Done properly a sleeved gun is better than an unusable gun, done poorly the gun becomes trash. I find the markets revulsion to sleeving curious given its same acceptance of Mono Block Guns from Italy that are so popular.
Regardless the lack of acceptance makes sleeving anything other than higher grade guns uneconomical. A sleeved field grade box lock will normally not bring the price of sleeving.
Last edited by old colonel; 01/16/20 10:36 PM.
