I think the rifle is a restoration and it wouldn't matter to change the configuration anyway. The receiver looks to be Zinc parkerizing which was used during rebuilds after WWII and appears to have a mark on the right side receiver leg ,( possible sharpie, rebuild mark, or shadow ? ) . My assumptions may be wrong and the pictures are hard to tell so take what I am posting with a grain of salt . Assuming the park on the receiver is Zinc , then the armory probably didn't put it in this configuration . The parts, although some neat and somewhat hard to find a few of them , do not match the rebuild of a 9-41 barrel date . Again , my assumption . If Springfield armory had done the rebuild then wouldn't the rebuild P proof be different and not a square box P and the stock would have a regular cartouche stamp at this point in time ? The rifle is neat and has some cool parts I just don't believe it is an original Springfield armory rebuild from 9-1941 . Of course whoever buys this rifle can do whatever they want to with it. I do agree that if it was indeed an original 1941 rebuild then I agree, I wouldn't want to change the rifles configuration .
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