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07-01-2001, 10:29 AM

Marvin, I appreciate your reserch and August Weiss is certainly the "horses mouth". I presume that he is talking about the 1941 "q" suffix block, shortly after the introduction of the BYF toggle code. But I question his assertion that ALL 1941 & 42 military PO8s begining with the 1941 "u" block, left the factory with black bakelite grips. I'm sure that there are many of these with matching numbered & proofed wood grips, otherwise why do most authors estimate that only about 20% of this production had the BW grips? I feel that observation better supports the black plastic bottomed FXO mag from this point on.

07-01-2001, 10:29 AM	#4
tom h Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Wood Grips vs. Plastic Grips - When Marvin, I appreciate your reserch and August Weiss is certainly the "horses mouth". I presume that he is talking about the 1941 "q" suffix block, shortly after the introduction of the BYF toggle code. But I question his assertion that ALL 1941 & 42 military PO8s begining with the 1941 "u" block, left the factory with black bakelite grips. I'm sure that there are many of these with matching numbered & proofed wood grips, otherwise why do most authors estimate that only about 20% of this production had the BW grips? I feel that observation better supports the black plastic bottomed FXO mag from this point on.