bottom feeding

[Brent Francis]

I thought Id try to post a few pictures of the GH damascus I got off of gunbroker last week. Some of you may have seen the no reserve listing. The seller was a pawn shop in Colorodo and they had listed it as a Parker SS. no grade. They had four pictures one that showed the whole gun at a distance, couldnt see much but the checkering patern. One that showed that the wrist was cracked and one out of focus shot of the muzzel (couldnt see anything) and one was a close up of the barrels that showed the parker brothers label on the barrels. Anyway I took a chance and got it with a bid under 500. I figured I could use it for Parts. Anyway It came Monday. I was suprised, The barrels are nice with over 50% of the damascus finish. 30 inch full modified clearly never cut and the bores are very clean absolutely no pits inside or out and the ring well. the screws are buggered but I shuffled them around and got them indexed and I will peen them to see if I can get them looking better. There is some color on the reciever. All the parts are original I know because When I fixed the wrist I had everything apart. I did a french rub finish recut the checkering on the forend. the pictures dont do the tiger striped wood justice.