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Originally Posted by Carl Erickson Jr
Before you start working with spreader loads or changing chokes pattern your GH. You might have the patterns that you want already. I patterned my new GH on Friday and found that my right barrel was full and my left improved/modified. By the way,mine cost $200 at a gun show but it was not as nice looking as yours (it was ugly!) , It still shoots well!
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I find that a "beater" can be brought back. Black wood can be lightened with proper technique. Rust is an issue. I never really scrub on rust since doing so shines the finish and looks like it has been scrubbed. So your gun may have a brown patina that will have to stay. But that's not all bad.
I fix cracks. Either I do it, or a gunsmith does, if they are difficult enough. They will spread the crack and fill it with glue.
A good gunsmith can make those barrels glow like absolutely new. It'll cost you about $300 to do it though. We have one of the best gunsmiths in the country here. All he does is re-furbish old guns. He uses nothing but authentic methods. Keith Kearcher. He has a website, so you can google him. While I'm not recommending it. You can give him a really beat up gun and say, "Make it new, Keith", and he will. It'll cost about a grand. He can do the engraving, the whole bit. (He sends it out for engraving.)
The only guns that I have had Keith refurbish were really in terrible shape. So terrible that they were junk. One a muzzle loading rifle and the other a muzzle loading shotgun. I didn't want the shotgun to look new, just nice and that's what he did. Now it is something to be pround of. The ancient rifle is absolutely wonderful. Doesn't look exactly new, but pretty.
What shells are you shooting?