The A/O owner is my lifetime bro-in-law. He will let me know whatever his gunsmith does or says. A GI hammer spring sound like an easy way to test it.

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We field stripped it before going to the range. The AO must have shipped the thing bone dry. It was clean, but we gave everything some Breakfree, and Tetra gun grease love.