Posted by J. Keith on August 18, 2007, 7:03 am, in reply to "Re: Trap grade bbls"
I would't spend $2k or more to do a sleeve job on a Smith. You'll end up with a gun that isn't a collector, never get your money out of it. Nor will you have a good shooter if you want to shoot it more than a token amount, stock cracks and splits. OK you can have the head glass bedded etc to hold up to shooting better but you'll still have a real high priced hybrid that won't bring much down the road. If it were me I'd wait for a good used barrel to show up on one of the sites.