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Unread 07-19-2016, 03:22 PM   #6
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Earlier Grade-1 T/A check-hook hammer guns were made with Laminated Steel barrels and Grade-0 T/A check-hook hammer guns were made with Twist Steel barrels. That may be where the confusion in printed literature lies for this particular gun.

It is obviously a Grade-1 gun by the P stamped on the water table. Laminated Steel barrels had generally been phased out nearly two decades earlier, save for a few sets of barrels remaining in the back of the bin in Meriden that were used on very rare occasions until they were gone.






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