Contest to rename the idiot scratch

[SA M1Dom]

How about slide stop scar

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

The last guy who owned it scratch? Take $100 off the price and I will buy it scratch? Battle damage or patina scratch if I am looking to purchace it.

[SA M1Dom]

I suppose I could call it the I wish my freakin license would come so I could get one scratch

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I suppose I could call it the I wish my freakin license would come so I could get one scratch

Or I wish common sence was a common virtue so I did not need a license to get a scratch.
I admire your tenacity.

[SA M1Dom]

Or I wish common sence was a common virtue so I did not need a license to get a scratch.
I admire your tenacity.

Some of us must deal with totalitarian rule

[Scott Gahimer]

Besides "takedown" scratch, it has often been called the "GI" scratch, as most government issued pistols have it.

[CJS57]

Every time I see a take down or GI scratch called an idiot scratch, I am pretty sure who the idiot is!

[catman]

How about: its been field stripped scratch?
I love my old 1911, 1948, with 5 digit serial #, chambered in 38 Super. Great shooter, but I made my Race Gun from a different format.
Chuck

[DaveN]

Since the soldier using it is really the final inspector before it's used for its intended purpose is it safe to call it "the final inspection stamp"( though not a stamp at all) ?

Reread my post and came up with "final inspection mark" or " GI inspection mark"( a take off from Scott's GI scratch)

[Scott Gahimer]

I don't think referring to it as any kind of an inspection mark will ever fly because when it is normally discussed, the actual Ordnance final inspection mark is usually discussed, too. That would just be too confusing for many trying to learn by asking the questions.