Let the buyer beware- words of wisdom-- Harry, you are a true gentleman NOT to have raised the question to your dealer friend about those barrels in front of other customers in his shop. If he is an upright gentleman, he'll re-label the tag on that shotgun- So much mystery extant now that the shotgunning cognoscenti has discover that SOME Damascus barreled double gun are very shootable- (with proper loads and ONLY after a competent gunsmith has given them the A-OK--
A segue- but about 25 years ago, a small mom and pop gun store in Grant, MI (Schroeder's if memory serves) had a mis-labeled 12 M21 in the used gun rack- it was marked as a M24 (believe it was an early M21 with DT, possibly a non-ejector like the M24-- a good friend was looking at it with serious intent to buy- at $200 and change- this was way before the BATF 4473 and NICS checky-checky- just as he was getting out his checkbook to close the transaction a PITA "know-it-all" told the clerk- hey, that's one of them custom Model 21 shotguns- sells for over a thousand bucks new- so the clerk, not wanting to lose his job, put the gun away until the store owner could sort it out-It was later re-tagged as a 12 M21 and not a M24 and repriced- the Ying and Yang of life I guess!
