Quote Originally Posted by tankhunter View Post
So as you can see, it REALLY dosent matter about having totally matching Manufacturers marks!...However...there are 'People' out there who are MORE than happy to sell Legal Parts to you. If you want to part with your hard earned cash. To 'Match up' your guns.
So they ARE all matching in ID stamps!.....my attitude is: 'WHY one earth bother? When all that Cash could add up, & go towards ANOTHER Gun!!.....
Do people really do that, match parts by manufacturer on dewats? It’s their money to spend as they choose. But I thought the whole idea was to preserve the history of these old guns? To me the more barred-out numbers, patches, etc, means the gun has some history. It had to be used to need those parts changed.

At least there’s no danger in matching parts by manufacturer on a dewat. Here we see it on live guns and it’s often dangerous. People change things like breech blocks. Then they don’t check the case headspace and are not always lucky.