Pits near the muzzle ?

[William Davis]

Looking for advice, Would you rule out a Damascus Parker nice shape except for a few pits inside one barrel 3 or 4 inches from the muzzle. Appears never polished outside or honed nside. No telling how deep the pits are. Nothing visible outside

Bill

[Erick Dorr]

Not unless the pits look deeper than this magnaporting job.

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I am assuming your concern is with shooting safety and not necessarily with collectability.

[William Davis]

Guess you are right they are further from the chamber that ports on a new Browning. And bonus is they don't go all the way through. No collecting in mind want it for a shooter.

Thanks

Bill

[Brian Dudley]

No concern at all. At the muzzle, there is the least pressures. If you really wanted to get them out, re cutting the chokes would do it if it is tighter choked already.

Even the deepest looking of pits may not be as deep as you think. They all look worse when looking across them.

[Pete Lester]

Speaking of pitted barrels, here is a gun with some deep and extensive pitting on the exterior of the barrels (which weakens it more than pitting in the interior of the barrel), it's in the area with the highest pressures and oddly enough nobody gets very concerned. Some types of pitting are nicer looking than other types. :)

[wayne goerres]

Its pretty hard to find parkers that were manufactured before 1900 that don't have a few pits. these guns were fired with Bp shells in them. A lot of people want to hone these pits out but when you do you remove metal from the hole barrel. I leave them unless the hole barrel is pitted so bad that it becomes hard to clean. That's just my opinion.