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Originally Posted by Breck Gorman
What has happened to the extractor? Looks split. Maybe it’s the photo, but doesn’t look right.
You will need an authentic hammer screw to replace the Home Depot screw and lock washer. I have one.
What is curious to me is that the engraving looks grade 2, but the barrel flats are stamped “DD”, which indicates 6 iron Turkish Crolle, a fine Damascus pattern reserved for grade 4+ guns
You have a nice gun worthy of some attention.
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Breck's comments made me go back for a second look. The extractor looks to have been ground in a V for some reason. It look like it may work after a fashion, but it is small and the top is not thick enough. In some of the barrel pictures it is shown extended. It should be a relatively easy part to find.
I went back and looked at the barrel pattern and Drew is right. I shows up better on my screen if I enlarge the outside barrel picture.
I saw the picture of the length of the barrel and it is correct. which answers one of my questions above. The odd length, the damascus pattern and the fact that I can't see a serial number on the barrels due to the angle of the pictures makes me guess that as, Drew mentioned, it has been rebarreled with higher grade damascus. I would also guess that the barrels were shortened when installed, probably from 34". With the high grade barrels it is very possible they had ejectors which were cobbled to make them work.
If we knew if the serial numbers were mismatched we would likely know the entire story. If I missed the barrel numbers, my bad.
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