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Unread 12-01-2004, 01:27 PM   #17
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"Loaded" It is written on the extractor so that you can view it when there is enough light to know there is a round in the chamber... in the dark, you can feel the raised extractor and know that the chamber contains a round...

Pretty ingenious for a pistol mechanism designed in 1898, eh?
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