That's an interesting thought. Electroplating it, I mean. When you come down to it, I doubt any of the pits are even a millimeter deep, as they just BARELY obliterate most of the breech date (though you can still see the "62" part of the 1862) and my thought process when choosing to shoot the gun was simply, "there's nowhere near even 10% of the metal gone, and I'm nowhere near 90% of a max charge, or even combat charge." But maybe down the road electroplating it would smooth it out a bit.