Gas escaping through the firing pin port in the breech face can cause enough pressure to blow chunks out of your stock head.
W&C Scott's Patented Gas Check System was apparently invented for just this problem.
Illustrated is a Grade 6 which had this done to it by a Cleveland, Ohio gunsmith early in the last century.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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