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I believe all those guns had solid steel barrels, but best to double check. If the barrels are Damascus, I wouldn't waste any time on it and wouldn't fire it. Jim

If you can see the end of the spring, get a screw driver in the end and turn it like a screw to screw it out, no idea so if it's lefty loosy.

The dandy Marlin action.... ??? -tINY

Sir; Correct, the S&W extractor cannot be adjusted - but - remove it from the pistol carefully and on the very bottom behind the hook take a needle file and cut a very small angle (just break the sharp edge) and then gently polish it with some very fine grit. This will let the case rim slip up under the extractor hook easier. Harry B.

Quote: "I called Wilson to day. I talked to a rep. I asked them to make me one. They said they would." Great. Hope that solves your problem. Ask them to send you a couple of the short, cut off pins to use for locking the guide rod during disassembly. You can use them to buy additional small nails and cut lots more as needed once you see what size and length is appropriate. Remember which rep you talked to and check back with...

Call up and talk to the folks at H&S Precision. They made the stock. The stock is hollow. Perhaps a new recoil pad would do? I believe the Sendero recoil pads are quite thick. - Ivan.

I am confused. The recoil spring guide should not have remained in place if the spring flew away as the guide fits into the back of the spring. Was the guide put in wrong and put into the pin rather than into the back of the spring? ----------------------------------------------------------------- The "guide" that I am assuming is the 1/2 inch nail attacted to the spring and it was inserted (guide toward muzzle) into a metal...

Haven't made much progress, but I now think the problem for me is removing the "firing pin stop pin" if I read it correctly. Found an old diagram for a Bernardelli VP (not my model) but it should be related.

I'm with Slamfire on this one. It is a blowback action set up for 40 S&W. 10% higher chamber pressures, more recoil, more energy . . . ugh, it all makes me feel kinda queasy.

From what I heard, NM windage knobs have an extra detent. This would make sense to me, that one could take a standard "click" and by adding an extra detent offset to one another could possible make a click between a click, thus, converting 1/2 MOA to 1/4 MOA. But, the pictures of the NM windage knobs I see only have 1 hole where the detent spring and ball would go... hmmm