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Thanks Bobby. Will do. I tried to do a simple measure of the chamber with a handy caliper but the number I came up with didn't make a lot of sense to me. I measured from the end of the barrel to a point in the barrel where it "narrows". I'm a little ambiguous on this as it was more of a ramp than an actual hard stop, tough to measure down inside the barrel where my fat fingers can't get to. Anyway, I measured it to be roughly 4". Now the way I understand it they used to measure the chamber by the length of the fired round so that would tell me that it is set up for 3 1/2" shells. I wasn't aware that they used shells that long back when this was made but I'm by no means a period firearms expert.
-Ron
-Ron