Good morning Ken,

Sorry, but what do you mean by "the 12 ga. ejector is soft"? Soft as in made out
of lead? A soft ejector on a Famars Castore that I doubt!

I would think the tube was not made to match the groove or rim of the ejector. It is
smaller and that is why, on firing, it gets pushed in. And also why the workman was
asked to make a new one. He may have tried to wiggle his way out of making another
tube (for which he was not going to be paid, having bungled the first one) by giving
out a very lame explanation and shortening the firing pins.
And surely the upstanding Chuck Webb knows nothing of his workman's shenanigans.

8b, why doubt Crawley? What am I am missing?

JC


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