My daughter-in-law’s grandfather likes to buy pawn shop specials and picked up a trapdoor carbine in 45-70 a couple months ago. He knows I enjoy old single shots and showed it to me last weekend. They have a big ranch so I took a couple dozen BP handloads with me, consisting of 45 grs. FFg and a 400 gr. boolit. We shot all of those rounds and had a great old time - the old girl is quite accurate, especially for its age.
The gun is generally in good shape but the chamber is sufficiently pitted over its entire length that the cases want to hang up. There are also a couple of light rings that hinder extraction. Grandpa has plenty of money and wants to get it fixed but he doesn’t do the Internet so asked me to do research.
My question is whether it’s customary for this type of repair to pull the barrel, face off the end, set the shoulder back and rechamber - or is it better to bore it out and sleeve it then recut the chamber? I can see advantages to both; the latter might be less work but I’d probably leave it to the gunsmith.
Anyone have recommendations for a shop that might specialize in this type of repair?
TIA, HW