Daryl, I should let Claudio answer the question more fully but my quick response is that it was a gun regularly used in an area of Canada where guns are tools. And it's been around for 115 years. So things happen. I think the biggest issue is the broken ejector rod and what appears to be subsequent damage to the ejector system. The rest (other then the dents in the barrels) appear to me to be unsurprising wear and tear on a gun that got used. This was no safe queen.

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