Bob,
You are being too hard on your gun...its only a "fake" if its misrepresented as an original.
I too agree that the stock is not original and the barrels probably cut, but it looks like a great shooter and its priced as a shooter, so there's nothing to apologize for. Since its most likely not original, what a great candidate for new case colors to match that bright stock. My one real big concern is the barrel wall thickness of the upper right tube....it looks thinner than a sheet of paper at that portion of the muzzle. Have you measured its thickness? I wonder whether the barrels were cut due to a bad dent at the muzzle that was then honed, leaving the right muzzle wall noticeably thinned.
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