Welcome to the Forum.  Pull up a powder keg and light a pipe and we'll get down to business.

You say the barrel is pitted?  Have you cleaned it yet to see how it shoots with factory or home rolled jacketed loads on paper?  I have a M1917 that looks like Pelosi's heart, black and rotten, but it'll hold the ten ring if I do my part.

Maybe your old boy will do the same.  Maybe not.  Ya gots to check.

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