These two companies are now the same and are now part of marlin, correct?
I am dealing with an NEF/H&R pardner shotgun, I didn't look carefully at the model, I was able to identify it on sight as NOT being an 'antique' single shot shotgun as someone had told the family.
The gun is quite new in appearance, like very new, except for some big big spots of rust on the barrel where the bluing is all the way off.
Spot sanding and touchups I think won't be enough. Sanding all the bluing off and rebluing it myself is a lot of work, and those home rebluing kits never seem to work all that great. I have considered doing this to another H&R single shot, but that is one that belongs to my mother, given to her by her father in the late 1950s. It doesn't seem worth it for a $120 single shot probably 5 years old or less.
Also, no need for a single shot 12 gauge, that household has a sears and roebuck or coast to coast pump 12, a remington 1100 semiauto 12, a side by side 16, an over under 20, an old mossberg boltaction 20, and the aforementioned single shot 410.
How universal are the barrels? Can a new barrel simply be purchased and placed on?
The H&R website states
I was thinking of getting a .223 barrel or something why do you think the shotgun models cannot accept rifle barrel?
Lets say I 'loose' the barrel, then I am not sure if it is shotgun or rifle. Lets say I forget. How can you tell the difference?
Do I really need to send it in to them to put on a new barrel, head-space it, and proof test it? Is that just anti-lawsuit protection or is it necessary?
Sure, to get a replacement 12 guage barrel only costs $42.00....plus shipping to them. I've never shipped a longgun by us postal service, what are the prices?
I am dealing with an NEF/H&R pardner shotgun, I didn't look carefully at the model, I was able to identify it on sight as NOT being an 'antique' single shot shotgun as someone had told the family.
The gun is quite new in appearance, like very new, except for some big big spots of rust on the barrel where the bluing is all the way off.
Spot sanding and touchups I think won't be enough. Sanding all the bluing off and rebluing it myself is a lot of work, and those home rebluing kits never seem to work all that great. I have considered doing this to another H&R single shot, but that is one that belongs to my mother, given to her by her father in the late 1950s. It doesn't seem worth it for a $120 single shot probably 5 years old or less.
Also, no need for a single shot 12 gauge, that household has a sears and roebuck or coast to coast pump 12, a remington 1100 semiauto 12, a side by side 16, an over under 20, an old mossberg boltaction 20, and the aforementioned single shot 410.
How universal are the barrels? Can a new barrel simply be purchased and placed on?
The H&R website states
I was thinking of getting a .223 barrel or something why do you think the shotgun models cannot accept rifle barrel?
Lets say I 'loose' the barrel, then I am not sure if it is shotgun or rifle. Lets say I forget. How can you tell the difference?
Do I really need to send it in to them to put on a new barrel, head-space it, and proof test it? Is that just anti-lawsuit protection or is it necessary?
Sure, to get a replacement 12 guage barrel only costs $42.00....plus shipping to them. I've never shipped a longgun by us postal service, what are the prices?
. Either re blue it or spray it with duracoat choate makes the factory stocks for NEF and can be found here 
