Steve's new GH

[Ed Blake]

You did great. Nice gun. In regards to the chokes, leave them as they are and shoot it before you take that step. Then decide. There are some great published 7/8 oz. Low pressure loads. Easy on the gun and you

[StubTwist]

I think you did very well Steve. Nice honest wear and character. Love the figure of the wood. GH's seem to always have a nice piece of wood on them. You can clean up the exterior of the Damascus barrels with some Kroil Oil and 0000 steel wool. Check the archives in the Damascus section to how to do this. After Kroil and steel wool, a coat of Forby's Tung oil help bring out the black and white pattern and protect it as well.

I also have to chime in regards opening chokes. Ed gave you some good advice. You mentioned you are going to reload anyway and by doing so you can load up some spreader loads to open up the patterns.

Congratulations.

[Steve McCarty]

Originally Posted by Frank Cronin

I think you did very well Steve. Nice honest wear and character. Love the figure of the wood. GH's seem to always have a nice piece of wood on them. You can clean up the exterior of the Damascus barrels with some Kroil Oil and 0000 steel wool. Check the archives in the Damascus section to how to do this. After Kroil and steel wool, a coat of Forby's Tung oil help bring out the black and white pattern and protect it as well.

I also have to chime in regards opening chokes. Ed gave you some good advice. You mentioned you are going to reload anyway and by doing so you can load up some spreader loads to open up the patterns.

Congratulations.

I'll do it! Is Kroil Oil a hardwear store find, or gun store? I've never heard of it. I suppose that Forby's Tung oil is in the paint dept? I've got a few shallow worm holes in the stock. Have to do something with them too.

I'm going to enjoy this project.

Everyone suggests that I leave the chokes as is, and I'm going to take their advice. In bright sunlight one can see quite a lot of rust and staining. Pitting too here and there. Not much I can do about the pitting, but I'll touch the rust and stains some more with oil soaked 0000.

[Steve McCarty]

Originally Posted by Ed Blake

You did great. Nice gun. In regards to the chokes, leave them as they are and shoot it before you take that step. Then decide. There are some great published 7/8 oz. Low pressure loads. Easy on the gun and you

I'm going to have the chamber measured. You say "published 7/8 ounce loads". I assume you are alluding to loading my own. I guess, if it is short that I'll load Cheddite hulls. If the chambers are short, I'll shoot short shells. Do standard shotshell manuals quote low psi loads?

[StubTwist]

Originally Posted by Steve McCarty

Do standard shotshell manuals quote low psi loads?

You can check online from the powder manufacturer.

http://www.hodgdon.com/basic-manual-inquiry.html

My target load is: Remington STS hull; Remington 209 primer; Claybuster 1100 wad; 23 grains of IMR 7625; 1 oz of shot. 5100PSI 1150 fps velocity.