Mick:

I guess that thread must have run before I found AR. Good to know.

The Westley I mentioned in my first post on this thread was a 9.3 and had just been redone by Paul Roberts when my friend got it. The barrels were perfectly struck - I checked when he was thinking of buying it. They certainly weren't when we got finished with the X-bullets. He sold it for a song a year or two later. The dealer that he sold it to sent it to J. J. to have the barrels struck off and re-blacked. It showed up for sale at Westley Richards a few months later.

I've seen a number of double rifles with the same damage over the years. Fewer now than I used to. Word finally got around.
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