Another question always arises as to how the chambers were measured. Many modern day "Gunsmiths" will measure these chambers with a modern chamber gauge made to SAAMI minimum chamber diameter specs. The fly in the ointment is that all these old guns were not made to modern SAAMI specs. A chamber cut only .001" smaller than the diameter of that gauge will stop short by about 0.200" or a bit over 3/16". Most smiths unless they are very familiar with older guns & know to look further will simply declare it as short chambered by that amount, when quite often that is not the case at all.
