Well, my call out that this action was probably for a .43 Spanish was WAY off,...more like one of the larger based cartridges. The Extractor told that tale, and I'd really not looked at it closely 'til now

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Well, we'll have to make that one work, I guess. Fairly good sized excavations of the barrel shank ensue,

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One or two little "dabs" at a time is about all one can deposit in this old nickle steel, and than things go muddy. One has to stop and clean things up in the bead blaster. Used that 3.5 Nickle from Brownells, a 3/32 Lanthanated tungsten with a pure argon shield.

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