I purchased a 12 gauge hammer gun from a fellow member with a set of 30" twist barrels refinished by Breck and they are beautiful and I think make the gun worth more to me than the same barrels in rough shape on the outside. It's always interesting to me how over here in America we as collectors are so big on "original" while when I look at doubles from England I think we hardly ever and may be never buy an original gun that hasn't been refinished/refurbished at some point. It is common practice across the pond to send in your guns yearly for cleaning/refurbishing. And they know how to put together a pretty nice double barrel across the pond.
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