1941 byf BW - Need Help Please

sheepherder · 08-06-2009, 08:09 AM

At a WAG, I would say the rings/crescents in the barrel were made by a steel rod...possibly a "field expedient" squib rod, or maybe even a storage device that held the pistol in position by means of the bore...(My own safe uses wooden dowels of various diameters and heights to hold and separate my pistols & revolvers)...

I'd conjecture someone used a cleaning rod and a hammer to dislodge an obstruction (like a squib load/bullet) in the barrel, as Ed Tinker suggested...

08-06-2009, 08:09 AM	#8
sheepherder Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: ...on the 'ol Erie Canal... Posts: 8,197 Thanks: 1,416 Thanked 4,462 Times in 2,336 Posts	At a WAG, I would say the rings/crescents in the barrel were made by a steel rod...possibly a "field expedient" squib rod, or maybe even a storage device that held the pistol in position by means of the bore...(My own safe uses wooden dowels of various diameters and heights to hold and separate my pistols & revolvers)... I'd conjecture someone used a cleaning rod and a hammer to dislodge an obstruction (like a squib load/bullet) in the barrel, as Ed Tinker suggested...