I'm going to let this go since my take is we are in agreement and are differing mostly over semantics. You wrote it yourself. Finding any specimen with no alteration of ANYTHING is difficult, ergo few untouched and so honestly original guns still exist. But that whenever possible we ought to try really hard to get to my "as originalish as possible".look when we can. I believe in this one instance my knowingly doing it as I did was necessary. While agreeing I failed to meet your point since I could have made the re-do closer to the original pattern and still cover the repairs, it still wouldn't have looked identical to the standard pattern. Yah, I'll do better next time. Rick
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