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Old 30th November 2013, 04:51 PM   #18
Matchlock
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Exactly, 'Nando,

The hole in the muzzle plate/flat is highly unusual and dangerous, and the lateral damages seem to be rests of former integral stone trunnions, which would make much more sense than drilling a horizontal hole for a transversal bar into granite ...

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Michl

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