"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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regards, -John S
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