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I bought one from a used gun dealer that was at least that dirty last year...but probably with more caked on lead around the action. Anyway, it was a horrible mess and had a lot of small dings and dents around the inner part of the action, but if felt so good when I held it that I had to at least try it.
Well, it fired 4 consecutive shots and into a pretty small group no less, so I bought it and cleaned it up...which took days. But much to my dismay, it doesn't actually work. The 4 shots in a row, that I fired before buying it, was a fluke of luck.
It seems the firing pin is worn out (too short) to reliably set off a round, it will fire a few, then misfire a few times, always leaving very small impressions in the rim (weather they go off or not). One of these days I will get around to tracking down a new firing pin, for the ugliest, but greatest feeling little rifle I own.
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