My LB ftr/rebuild has a '43 dated barrel and I'll wager serious money that it was never fired post rebuild.ALL matching numbers with mint timber throughout.The foregoing was the GOOD stuff...The BAD is that they stamped a big FAT DP on the right side of the buttstock,a smaller DP on top of the receiver ring and nipped the firing pin.
I called Etter SENIOR about it at the time of acquisition(I truly wish that folks like him could live forever;life would be SO much easier you see)and was told that they did the rebuilds and didn't need the rifles.Drill rifles for recruits and army cadets WERE needed so whack,whack,snip and presto we had a mint DP rifle.P'd me off NO end that did.
Cheers all,

JR