
deerhunter
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Never heard of this before. Is it referring to bluing or case-coloring the internal parts of the receiver? Or something else?
Don

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It is my understanding is that it was additional polishing of the internals making a smoother action with more attention paid to hand fitting the parts.
But I could be wrong.
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They took a little more time to polish the insides removing machining marks and would be finished the same as normal.
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