My list in no particular order.

Awful replacement wood that's poorly fit.

Poorly executed split head repairs.

Grade-3 & higher guns with the skeleton butt cut-off for a butt ugly pad installation unless documented it was ordered with a pad.

Any metal refinishing where it's obvious the polishing was done on a buffing wheel. I.E. rounded edges, removed or over buffed lettering or engraving etc.

Loose ribs or ones that some Bodger attempted to fix with some type of gum-pucky from the local hardware store.

Guns with so much drop at heel that they make the gun look like a banana.

Buggered screws.

Poorly done re-case hardening resulting in gaudy case colors.

Heavy rust & pitting.

Oil-soaked wood.

This is only a partial list, but you probably get the idea.

Then my personal subjective one is barrels over 30" in length:shock::whistle:

Most price tags :eek: ;).

Engraved animals and birds that are unrealistic.

That covers about 75% of the guns.

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Hawkins or Silvers. Plus it’s an easy way to gain LOP.

Stocks that have the owners SS # carved in, Gary

Or barrels that have a former owner’s drivers license number scratched into beautiful “finest Damascus” barrels…





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The fifties and sixties phenomenon of scratching out "Damascus Steel" on the rib and replacing it with a roughly stamped "TiTanIc Steel" and bluing over the Damascus finish. As Elmer Keith would say, "I was there." Where are all those guns now? There used to be five of them at every small town show.

Hot bluing and honed barrels