A riddle

[smellie]

Whatever you do, don't deactivate the poor thing; it has had quite enough violence done to it already!

If it's difficult to dispose of where you are, I am sure that a home for it could be found on this side of The Great Puddle. Mark Is are hens' teeth in this part of the world... in ANY condition.

Also, lots of rifles got DP'd for no reason other than that DP rifles were needed. Others were DP'd for repairs, the repairs later done and the DP never removed. I am shooting an SMLE I*** DP which I rebuilt from the contents of a gun shop's junk barrel (literally) and it works just fine..... but I do keep my loads on the mild side.

If this one is a .410 already, I don't think it would be too terribly dangerous to fire; .410 only runs a THIRD of the pressure of a Ball round of Service ammo.

Likely, somebody who knows their onions will stomp me flat on this..... but it is certainly one I wouldn't mind having, likely a lot of other fellows as well.
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