Smoothbore Spencer: Tracing a Mystery Gun
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Today's firearm is not a normal gun; it is a conversion of a Spencer into a shotgun. My question is, what path did this weapon travel? What did it begin as, and how did it come to be in its current form?
Let's see if we can puzzle this out looking at the evidence in the gun itself...
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