Cracked Barrel! - Page 3

C.O.B. · 02-13-2018, 09:11 AM

Send the barrels to Brad Batchelder and have him evaluate them.

Kensal Rise · 02-13-2018, 09:11 AM

Sorry to say, but this issue is NOT one that can be resolved on this forum. An expert professional hands-on evaluation is the only way to be sure. I suggest you contact Kirk Merrignton. He's the one who can discern the truth of it.

http://www.merringtongun.com

Daniel G Rainey · 02-13-2018, 11:02 AM

Hate that for anyone.

TxHuntermn · 02-13-2018, 11:08 AM

General question....would a nickel plated pellet be able to scratch a damascus bore? This is a very early Baker A grade with 4 kroil barrels. I shot some RST low pressure loads they made for me special a couple of years ago for pigeons out of this gun last year, (the last time I shot it)....not going to shoot the gun till gone over, but wondering?

Woodcock survey · 02-13-2018, 12:49 PM

Glad to hear it!!! Any way to identify what the material was? Have had some awful leading streaks in vintage guns but none that looked like that

Southpaw · 02-13-2018, 12:50 PM

Awesome Mark. Glad there is significant hope and it did not turn out as bad as you first thought. Seeing something suspicious on an old gun barrel is like getting a fever and not feeling sick. First thing you do is go to Web MD and look up symptoms and everything starts with a fever. Start adding in a few more symptoms like a pimple at the base of your spine and next thing you know your certain you have a Bangladeshi epizootic hemorrhagic fever, and yours would be the second reported case ever if confirmed.

Best prescription as go ring those barrels like a cow bell and then go shoot that 16 gauge. Glad you didn't get blowed up.

Dean Romig · 02-13-2018, 01:35 PM

Great news Mark.

I have a set of 12 ga. Damascus barrels with a 'line' going from the edge of the forcing cone right out through the muzzle. It isn't especially deep, maybe 2 - 3 thousandths but caused me some concern when I first noticed it. The comforting factor was that it is too wide for its entire length to be a crack. It is a deep scratch but it had to be something pretty hard on the side of a shot charge at one time before I owned the barrels. I shoot these barrels regularly these days.

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Drew Hause · 02-13-2018, 02:10 PM

Never mind, but glad for the good news.
If the barrels have not been evaluated by a double gun specialist, maybe this was a hint to do so?
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/...41&#Post504941

Richard Flanders · 03-01-2018, 10:47 AM

I agree with Edgar. I can't see how a crack could possibly form across all the wraps of material of such different properties as in a damascus barrel. Just doesn't sound plausible. A scratch yes, but not a crack. You should do some research on the nature of the nickel plating used on shot. Some nickel plating contains silicon-carbide or sapphire, both of which would make it more than hard enough to scratch steel.

TxHuntermn · 03-02-2018, 12:45 AM

I still feel like “chicken little” for freaking out about the Baker, but it is one of my fav’s, of the maker representatve guns I own. Took it to a friends place in the Rio Grand Valley today, and proceeded to make a down payment on my next Parker by eating these guys up with the Baker shooting wobble trap “Miss and Outs”.....whooped a MX8, a Kolar, two 1100’s, a ”new” Fox, variuos other one or two rounders.....played five games of it, and only split one round (the last one) , with a ranch hand, shooting a “POS” J C Higgins pump!! Just goes to show you!!

Now, if can just stick a Nilgai Bull in the next two days, all will be right with the universe!!