The barrels on this gun are just pristine.I can't find or feel any dings in it anywhere and the bores are as smooth and shiny as a new gun.When I got this home and ran my bore gauge in it and saw the numbers I first thought oh no these barrels have had the crap honed out of them.I called a friend,Dean Weber who has more knowledge about these older guns than I and conferred with him about the bore diameter.I recently purchased a 1887 hammer gun and those bores are the same within a thousandth or two and then realized this was a brass case gun.I plan on checking barrel wall thickness for good measure though.The buttstock has just a very few tiny marks but may have been redone in the past.It does have a 1/4 inch chip at the toe that isn't in the pictures.Just needs a little tune up and good for a long time again.Im planning on going to The Great Northern shoot in Wis.this July and hope to meet and get acquainted with some of you guys.A lot of you have helped me in giving me confidence to buy some of these guns knowing that it could be repaired and put back into service.This site is a wealth of knowledge.
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