WR made a cut in the front receiver ring from 11 to 3 o´clock. Deepness ca. 5mm.
The total amount of the thickness behind the upper locking lug is 10 mmm.
Reducing material at that critical area by 50 % is to my view creating a predeterminated breaking point.
Technically ( international not only teutonic !) indisputable.
Good for what ? For proper loading long rounds - even by clips - it´s enough to cut a small radius at 12 o´clock.
So done by various makers (Rigby´s .416 , H&H .244 Mag and postwar production.300 Mag and .375 Mag. made up on standard length actions. Even to be seen on Original Oberndorf sporting rifles in Cal. 30-06 !).
Only additional effect of the way WR did it . To eject an u n f i r e d round. An empty shell will easy pass the receiver without that treatment.
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