butlersrangers wrote on Feb 26^th, 2018 at 8:34pm:

Check your Chamber very carefully to make sure someone didn't auger it out to take some kind of 'Blank'. It is interesting that someone 'DEWAT'ed the bolt to make it non-firing??? .

Yes, I was wondering that myself.  Especially when the rest of the firearm looks to be in really good shape.  I am familiar with doing chamber casts using Cerrosafe.  So, it looks like this one may be worth the effort.  But how would a blank firing chamber's dimensions differ?
- milsurpshooter