I get rid of the things that I don't like.
So, I'm having to really think about this.
Ah... Easy way out: A 1916 Spanish Mauser with something massively wrong with the locking lugs in the receiver. I attempted to remove the barrel to investigate (and save the barrel if the receiver was junk). No luck.
I had a gunsmith try to pull the barrel. No luck.
I had another gunsmith use his over-kill hydraulic barrel vise to try to pull the barrel. No luck.
I said, 'screw it, get the torch', and we hit that stubborn SOB with heat, a pipe wrench, and cheater bars on both the pipe wrench and action wrench. No luck.
"ALRIGHT THEN, you can't be stuck if you're liquid!"
I went in for the kill, but the gunsmith decided that splattering molten Spanish steel was probably not the best idea in his shop ... and shut me down.
Stupid rifle. I should bury it in the garden and put it out of my misery.