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Thanks, Chuck. I too am nearly 60 and was hoping to retire this month, but common wisdom is to not retire into a recession, so that's what I'm doing. So sorry about what you GF is going through......

I'll post some more detailed pix of that area of the suspect gun... after the NFL wild card games!

To be honest, I can't see what Chuck is trying to show, but my pix should provide some contrast.

How can I go about ascertaining that?

But I still wonder... why is the serial number proper looking and in the correct range?

You hold out hope that the gun you bought off GB, without actually seeing it in person, is what the seller says it is. It shouldn't have taken me this long to come to the truth, but I now have.
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I took another pic of the underside of the barrel in natural light and it seems to show the remains of a punch mark.
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Agreed on the bolt handle cut-out... I assume it was a DCM gun that was...

Requested pics added to original post.

New member here. I recently acquired the following 1903A4:

Serial#: 3421904
Barrel Date: 10-43
M73B1: #23298

It looks to have had an arsenal rebuild (blued -> park) and has a Keystone C-stock...