Is this barrel steel crystalized? (Revelation Model 336) +PICTURES WARNING
This shotgun is a Revelation Model 336, single-shot, bolt-action, 410 bore old enough to not have a serial number. I don't know the date of manufacture.
I believe it is one of the "hardware store" brands that corresponds to a (Savage)Stevens Model 951. But I am not too sure, though it looks like it in the Numrich parts book.
Up close, you can see hopefully that there are little lines running perpendicular to the bore axis. Although someone in the past tried to sand or steel wool the whole thing as seen in the receiver end and chamber end of the barrel, the rest of the length of the barrel has these lines evident.
Is this barrel safe to fire?
Do these lines represent the crystallization of the steel, as was suggested to me?
I hope these pictures come out. I don't own so don't have the shotgun in front of me but if I left something important out, pls let me know.
Thanks to the experts,
C-
This shotgun is a Revelation Model 336, single-shot, bolt-action, 410 bore old enough to not have a serial number. I don't know the date of manufacture.
I believe it is one of the "hardware store" brands that corresponds to a (Savage)Stevens Model 951. But I am not too sure, though it looks like it in the Numrich parts book.
Up close, you can see hopefully that there are little lines running perpendicular to the bore axis. Although someone in the past tried to sand or steel wool the whole thing as seen in the receiver end and chamber end of the barrel, the rest of the length of the barrel has these lines evident.
Is this barrel safe to fire?
Do these lines represent the crystallization of the steel, as was suggested to me?
I hope these pictures come out. I don't own so don't have the shotgun in front of me but if I left something important out, pls let me know.
Thanks to the experts,
C-