Gun show lesson 15-4

[johnbeaver]

I looked at a nickel 19-2 with a little wear on the back of the grip. Good price and the gun was pretty clean, except the bore. Incredibly dirty. Could not get a decent look. So I left it. Maybe a good thing.
Not saying it was intentionally fouled but....

 

[Grayfox]

I'd shoot it and see how it performs before doing anything else.

 

[S.B.]

I'd shoot it and see how it performs before doing anything else.

Ditto that!
Steve

 

[1-1917]

This gun is cursed. The barrel I purchased has been lost in the mail. Go figure...

I did take it out and shot about 50 wad cutters through it and it looks like I got all the high spots knocked down. I didn't have any lead shaving and shooting off hand it wasn't any less accurate than anything I shot yesterday. No lead buildup that I could detect. I'll try a 100 through it next week. Maybe I will just leave it and shoot it as is. Still makes me mad but I'm beginning to resign myself to it. And now to have a new barrel lost in the mail...

 

[Iggy]

Bubba strikes again,

I saw a gun with similar damage many years ago. Squib load and someone had tried to drill a hole in the bullet in order to remove it.

Electric drill bit slipped and boogered up the barrel.

 

[MygunisaS&Wrevolver]

Live and learn. A few years ago I found a 686-3 with a six inch barrel at a pawn shop. I checked it and everything including carry up seemed good. It was fairly tight. The bore was dirty and I didn't have a bore light with me but I thought it would clean up O.K.. I bought it for what was a good price at the time. I took it home and started cleaning it up. I noticed red material in the trigger opening. I took the side plate off and it was caked on the inside with what I believed was dried blood. I put on my gloves and and completely took it apart and thoroughly cleaned with rubbing alcohol and oiled it good. Then I started on the bore, I worked and worked and couldn't get a ring (bulge) that I now noticed on the inside of the barrel. I said this is enough and took the gun back to the pawnshop and demanded my money back. Oh he had to give me some ****, saying the blood could have been from an animal and a lewis lead remover might have gotten the ring (bulge) out. I frankly think that this revolver may have been used in a suicide. I got my money back and should have charged him for cleaning the gun up. Morale of the story is to always be careful when buying from someone you don't know!

 

[GypsmJim]

When everyone was using rifles or semi-auto shotguns for deer hunting, my Dad would only use his old double 12 gauge, made back in 1915. The barrel was pitted, rusty and looked like a sewer pipe inside. He bought it in 1939, rusted just like that. He didn't know it when he bought it.

He got his deer every year. They always dropped in their tracks. Never required a second shot.

That gun will never be rebarreled. I have it now and it's destined for his Great Grandson some day. Hope he enjoys it like I do - rust and all.