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Originally Posted by Brian Dudley
Nick,
The Harrison Optimus was NOT an ejector gun. It was an extractor cocking-rod type action.
The two screws on the top side of the forend irons on guns of this era are for adjusting the contact point on the cocking rods.
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Brian,
You are correct as to the gun...I have my Presidents confused. It was not the Harrison gun, but the Grover Cleveland gun (also in Elliott's book) which I was thinking of. The Harrison gun is indeed a rod cocker.
The screws we're discussing are not on the forend iron, but in the sides of the forearm wood.
NDG