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Unread 05-26-2014, 05:17 PM   #5
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This firing pin does look weird. The front end appears to have no problem, but the rear, unrelieved portion of its cylinder has been doodled with, filed, smoothed off, or whatever, with a file, maybe to remove a burr--though how one would develop there in the first place is a mystery.
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