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[KarlKW]

...Mind you, an early uncut op rod probably isn't the best thing to use in a shooter. If it's modded, well, drive on!

Unless you are shooting rifle grenades, you won't have any problems shooting an un-cut op-rod. Think about it for a moment, millions and millions of such op-rods were fired in combat during World War II, and they didn't decide to modify them until after the War, largely due to cracks caused by shooting rifle grenades. As long as you shoot M2 ball, or equivalent rounds, shooting an un-cut op-rod is no big deal. HTH, KarlKW

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[JBS]

Round up all your bills and receipts for parts and labor and shipping. You can insure it as a “custom rifle” or “as built”. You would be insuring your original documented investment.

[LavaTech]

Unless you are shooting rifle grenades, you won't have any problems shooting an un-cut op-rod. Think about it for a moment, millions and millions of such op-rods were fired in combat during World War II, and they didn't decide to modify them until after the War, largely due to cracks caused by shooting rifle grenades. As long as you shoot M2 ball, or equivalent rounds, shooting an un-cut op-rod is no big deal. HTH, KarlKW

Old Wive's Tale with a bazillion lives - no oprods ever were operated, let alone cracked - by the firing of rifle grenades. A vented system is the ONLY system ever implemented for firing of rifle grenades with M1 rifles.

There was a war on, and oprod failures at the stress raiser in question didn't rate any kind of repair priority, but was indeed recognized as a design deficiency.