I don't want to steal a thread, but it's related and I didn't see this until I posted a topic similar.

I'm looking at a 1912 ShtLE that's in a local gun shop. It's all-matching, including the magazine, and I'm looking at it as a restoration project.

The "problem" I'm having is that the cut-down stock doesn't have the volley sights, and I can't tell that the rear volley sight was in place when it was sporterized. It does, however, have room for the magazine cutoff, though the cuttoff isn't there anymore (I assume removed for practicality when sportered).

I haven't seen any marks indicating rearsenal, but I'm starting to wonder if it was. The magazine is matching, but there's another SN on it that's been crossed out.

Would it have been possible to have been put in a stock at some point that had the mag cutoff, but not the volley sights? Would that be the more appropriate direction for me to look for a replacement stock?