Jesse did have some errors in his earlier book on the M1icon that he sent to me. Some of his explainations and conclusions were drawn from observing a large grouping of Captain Crunch parts that were either later crunched or saved from the jaws for honor teams or their like. There was no complete rifle data from that particular source.

I asked Scott about 15 years ago if he or Mac had any data on round top safety usage in any pure Original or darn close to WRA rifle. Answer then was no and I'm stilling looking for a confirmed benchmark rifle.

Small pad housing theories..........we know WRA made them smaller later on in production, possibly for future use with a round top safety or SA directive on interchangibility. Question is, did they actually manufacture them, and then use them in later production rifles?