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Old September 17, 2013, 09:47 AM   #9
Jim Watson
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If it does not have a front sight or an obvious place where one was mounted, then the barrel has been cut off enough to remove the step in the barrel and the alignment grooves. Part of the sporterizing process. The star gauge stamp, if present, would be long gone.

I guess it could have been tapered on a lathe enough to remove the front sight cuts, but cutting off an inch would have been much simpler.
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