Have you ever seen this on a Garand receiver?
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...f7157jpg-1.jpg
It's a Springfield Armory 1943
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Have you ever seen this on a Garand receiver?
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...f7157jpg-1.jpg
It's a Springfield Armory 1943
That was done during manufacture, it is not wear
I have seen that on several H&R rifles, and it appears to be an incomplete forging that apparently still passed inspection.
It starts to appear around 1943
Yep, undersize raw forging did not have enough metal there to machine. It's not unknown and is also occasionally found at the corners of the heel.