Need advise on 16ga Trojan with bad barrel

[charlie cleveland]

ruff yes i have welded up split barrels a nd fired them with factory low brass....this old gun was a steel barreled hammer gun ...the barrels were split at about the fore arm and wthere was about a 10 inch sp;it....it was the right side barrel and yes i still have my left hand...ruff you saythat you cring shooting the damacus barrel guns...ive have safely fired up tp 3 ounces of shot several times thru a 8 ga fa lommis with fine damascus barrels....and the barrels are pitted from the chambers to the muzzles but not danderous pitts..i mean not really deep pitts...my dad and i have hunted witha lefever 10 ga over a lot of years actually since 1959...this thing has shot literally dozens of boxes of high brass loads at ducks and turkeys over the years...ive got several guns that are damascus and ive never had any problems with them...in fact a parker 10 ga that i hunt turkeys with has fired several 3 1/2 in magnum 12 ga in it using gauge mates.... and they are twist steel barrels....i guess what im trying to say is that damascus and other twist steel laminated and the other type steel barrels are a lot better than we give them credit..the barrels im talking about arethe better gun makers barrels...you have to also take into consideration to always inspect the barrels good if they pass i would never be afraid of a set of these barrels....all the barrels ive seen blowed up had had a some kinda obstruction in them...such as a dirt dauber nest a reload that did not make it out of the barrel and someone got to check... etc.... back to welding barrels..the last fellow i worked fors grandfathers old hammer gun was in a bad fire warped the barrels so badthey ltierly looked like you could shoot around the corner with them....they had sat untouched for about 20 years but he had wrapped them in a old sack and poured burnt oil on them...we took those barrels straighted them brazed them back together...put new springs in it....we then had a old gent make a stock forearm we then cold blued the old gun....we test fired the old gun with low brass shells by the old method of tying string on trigger and getting behind the shed...old gun held up and was shoulder fired after being test proved...we only got to test one of the barrels as one hammer was missing...bout 5years later he found a hammer that would work and it proved out ok too...bout all this old gun does is set in the gun cabinet but if someone else shoots it down thru the years it wikk be ok...wish i had some pictures to show you the work but we done this when no body thought about taking pictures.... charlie