Russ,
Here are some of the issues that concern me about this gun:
The barrels appear to have been honed; the bores, measuring .624", are bright and shiney but for the last 8-9" at the muzzle where their diameter drops, over a distance of approximately one inch, to .620". The last (at the muzzle) 8-9" of the bores, although shiney, have a series of 3-5 arcs - only on their outboard sides - that look like deep, but polished, chip marks often left by a less than careful reamer operator. The barrel flats are stamped 32 yet the barrels only weigh 2 lbs. 10.4 oz..
The barrels also measure 27 15/16" with almost no unengraved rib at the muzzle.
My main concern is that if the barrels have been honed as I suspect, the minimum barrel wall thickness may make the gun questionable for use.
Larry
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