A “dowel” is sometimes used to repair a split head, when structural integrity has been compromised. The ends of the stabilizing dowel will be visible, adding checking on the cheeks make the repair less prominent.
The subject gun may have had no repair work, the owner may have just desired additional checking.
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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. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T.S. Eliot
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