Bill Lawrence wrote on Jan 8
th, 2019 at 10:38pm:
"OOMPAH!" says this Alt Deutcher. Also, if it were mine, I'd have the sacrilegious excess of holes welded up, the "ER" recut, and the barrel rust blued.
Bill Lawrence
Welding holes in a barrel will "pull" the bore metal leaving the bore harmed. Considering it's an AW Peterson rifled barrel, the bore is very important to not chance harming it.
I would install tight plugs and then cut them off short and peen them down. Then draw file them and they will disappear. I've done this with several old gun barrels that had extra holes and dovetails, and once rust blued they look great.
My Schoyen had 6 extra holes, and two extra dovetails. One dovetail took out the "GE" in GEO. C. SCHOYEN on my barrel. I had the GE re-cut by an engraver friend after the repair.
That's a really neat AW Peterson, and the fact it still shoots good makes it even better! I like everything about it, other than the many holes. But the holes usually make them more affordable too! That ivory grip insert is nifty too!
But it's a #6 Schuetzen action, not a Union Hill. Union Hill were #8 or #9, and had loop levers, not ball and spur like a #6 Schuetzen model.