Claims
- 1. A method for providing a chamber status indicator on a semi-automatic pistol having a frame, a slide including a bolt having a forwardly facing bolt face and defining an upwardly and laterally outwardly open ejection port forward of said bolt face and supported on the frame for forward and rearward reciprocal movement between firing and retracted positions relative to the frame, and a barrel mounted on the frame and at least partially disposed within the slide, the barrel having a rearwardly facing breechface, a bore extending therethrough, a chamber at the rear of the bore and opening through the breechface, and an integral headspace hood extension hood rearwardly projecting from the breechface above the chamber, said method comprising the steps of removing said barrel and said slide from the pistol, forming a rearwardly open first notch in the headspace extension hood, and forming a second notch in said slide opening forwardly and upwardly through the bolt face for registry with the first notch when said slide is in its firing position.
- 2. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein the step of forming is further characterized as terminating the first notch at the breechface.
- 3. A method as set forth in claim 2 wherein the step of forming is further characterized as milling.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/653,431, filed on Sep. 1, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,493,977 entitled “FIREARM HAVING CHAMBER STATUS INDICATOR AND FIREARM RETROFITTING METHOD”, herein incorporated by reference in its entirety which is a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/079,676, Filed on May 15, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,161,322.
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