why would someone do this to a perfectly good 1917??

[Patrick Chadwick]

and then gets butchered by someone to make a few extra dollars.

Well that's what I don't understand. Surely it would be worth more in original condition? Unless, of course, there was a serious defect at the front end of the barrel (bent? bulged?), and this carve-up was seen as a desperate way of making something shootable out of it.


Patrick