Marrakai-

"Any chance"?

At times, while working on loads for these antique guns and fiddling with the re-creation of obsolete components (and/or suitable substitutes) to get them to perform to their original regulation standard, it can seem that *everything* is chance!

So on that, I'd say it's possible.
If I were lucky enough to have that particular issue with this particular rifle, you can bet I'd be happy to mess around with that variable...

--Tinker