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Originally Posted by Bruce Day
1911 GHE SN 155,033, barrels redone by Dale Edmunds.
If your barrels look something like this, I'd leave them alone. If all the pattern is gone and they are just silver, well you can see how pretty the damascus pattern is. If the pattern is thin, wiping Formby's Tung Oil on the barrels can bring some of it back.
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The barrels look like your gun for about 60% of the tubes. Tell you what I'm going to do. I'll shoot it for a while and then decide how much I want to guzzy up the piece. The gun is in good enough shape that I can see what it'd look like if spruced up a bit. It is an 1895 gun! That's a long time ago. My grandfather was 2 when the gun was made, and he was OLD! He has been dead for nearly fifty years! So when I handle this GH I know that she is an antique and needs to be treated with respect.
But she cries to be shot.
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