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Unread 12-16-2012, 10:05 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by wayne8661 View Post
The serial number on the bottom of the barrel has no evidence of being re struck and if someone would go through the trouble to re strike the serial number to the proper size and font why wouldnt they put the suffix on?
Perhaps because they didn't have the proper 'fractur' font lower case letter stamps...

Harbor Freight/Brownells can't stock everything...'Someone' might have thought it would be better to leave it off rather than strike an obviously false font and have it proved a fake...

...Pure conjecture on my part...
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