I've looked around the house for something to mark it with but didn't come up with anything. It isn't a big deal, has to be 46.

New question. I stripped the rifle down this evening to give the metal a good cleaning. I mentioned before that the trigger guard assembly is in pretty rough shape. Some deep pitting that while I don't think it is enough to weaken the structure, I'd like to control it and possibly fill it in if possible. All this pitting is where it can't be seen on the underside. For now I've wired brushed the rust out and sprayed it with rem oil.

All in all everything else is in pretty good shape, there was a bit of rust in the butt stock cup but I kind of figured on that. The rest of the metal cleaned up pretty nice.

I'm seeing a lot of "F"s stamped on everything and a few "B"s on the small parts. Would these be the id marks for the two manufacturers? Mostly "F"s, maybe three "B"s.

I decided to leave the rear sight alone. Pounding on it doesn't appeal to me. What would your thoughts be on using small files and just reshaping it?