The saga continues  (get it, Norse gun haw) : Here is a picture of the chamber, and a picture of the action just opposite the chamber feature. The action peening was completely hidden by the stock. Took these with my microscope camera.
Evidently, the bbl is cracked, and was "fixed" by an unknown extreme bubba. Next is to remove the bbl and have the action magnafluxed or maybe if anyone out there has an orphan Norwegian barreled action FS, I have all the rest of the parts :-)

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