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Old 03-18-2017, 09:04 PM
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A lot of what you wrote doesn't make sense to me. By "SS" you mean stainless steel? If it's a shiny silver model 10 it would be nickel, not stainless.

What do you mean by pitting exactly? What is the shape? Pitting is little rusted out craters int he metal, which I don't think could be confused for tooling marks.

Assuming it is a nickel gun, I'm guessing a previous owners was in the habit of cleaning the gun with a heavy dose of solution which is not compatible with nickel (e.g. Hoppes #9) and he never took the grips off the clean it. In that case, the actual steel beneath the nickel plating should be intact.

If you're sure it's just bad nickel plating, I'd offer $300. If you're not sure walk away.
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