I just chambered a 3-1/2” shell and marked the length. It’s 2-13/16’s. Now I think it’s a 2-3/4” chamber that’s 1/16” longer. I have a 1902 VH that was lengthened and it measures 3” exactly. I surmise the chambers left the factory the way they are.
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Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss.
A current under sea picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell he passed the stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool.
T.S. Eliot
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