Trying to keep up. So in the early days of CF SxS's..before rebounding hammers and such...the firing pins were just floating in their cylinders? And could fall forward or backwards according to the tilt of the gun? No springs? And that presumes that the firing pins would be lightly resting on the primers of the shells depending on the elevation of the gn?. Could this be used to date a gun?

This Reilly has no SN published...it has a steel nitro-proofed replacement barrel from Birmingham. But one would think if you replace a barrel from an 1860's gun, you might also update the action? Perhaps with some springs? Curious.

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Last edited by Argo44; 12/18/24 12:48 AM.
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