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Originally Posted by Mark Ray
A sleeve job where the rib was not re laid? Almost looked like the tubes were simply butt welded together. And make sure and zoom in in the stock, literally looks like a jigsaw puzzle.
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That is what I thought I was seeing, so the chambers are damascus or laminated and the barrels are fluid steel?
I see the forend has a piece scabbed into it as well. I will have to say though, someone did go through a lot of trouble to put that stock back together. I mean it almost looks like a humpty dumpty gun that someone left that gun on the top of car and drove off and then came back to pick up all the parts and put it back together.
Starting to feel bad. Just a wild speculation but I'll bet whoever did that work owned that gun and had limited means and was sick at their stomach while putting it back together. If they did butt weld barrels together right at the forcing cones they must have been very skilled, knowledgeable or lucky.