VHE brought back to life.

[B. Dudley]

This 2 frame 12g. VHE belongs to a gentleman that is not a member of this forum. The gun started out as shootable, but in overall poor condition due to a screwed and bolted buttstock, cracked buttplate and very worn barrel blue. But it had some good things going for it. That being it had a reasonable amount of original case color on the frame, decent bores and good screws. And ejector gun also.

The buttstock was replaced to the same dimensions as the original with grade appropriate wood. It was fitted with a new buttplate and the original grip cap. The forend was refinished and re-checkered. I would have liked to replace the forend as well. But it was plenty serviceable as is with just some dents and scratches in it.

The barrels had significant wear to the bluing and has a lot of very fine freckling and pitting on them. They were re-struck and rust blued. The Trigger guard, triggers and safety button were polished and Nitre blued.

An interesting feature of this gun was that all the engraving was very light and also the makers mark on the barrel was very lightly stamped as well. The trigger guard engraving did not hold up to normal polishing well and had to be all re-cut by Gournet.

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