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Old 05-20-2017, 01:41 AM
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One precaution to keep in mind with the unrelieved target stocks: The extractor and case rims can, and will make contact with the wood. Most of those stocks that have been used very much have dents and divots from that contact.
Yes. That is precisely the reason the "football" relief came into being. It had nothing whatever to do with speed loaders, as some people assume. Speed loader use led to the full relief that showed up first in the 1970s.
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