My 10 gauge Grade two hammer gun was returned from Brad Bachelder's shop this week.
Brad did a full restoration on this 1884 three frame 10. The finish was in rough shape, but the wood had no cracks and the minimum barrel thickness was .058+.
I spoke to Brad after I was stunned by the quality of his work on Gary Carmichael's 10 under-lever “Just another C Grade” posted here last year. This Grade Two hardly matches the beauty of that C grade, but it does have a nice Damascus pattern.
I posted several pictures on this forum of this old duck gun before I sent in in last year:
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11240
Anyway, I am very pleased with the results and it was a pleasure dealing with Brad and his staff. My apologies for the so-so quality of the pictures, I was hoping for cloudy-bright conditions to shoot out of doors, but it was just another sunny California day.
Patrick