Front sight caps - were these ever removed by soldiers?

[fjruple]

RCS-- I like the note that only 10 percent of the rifles are targeted.

[cpc]

Here is the technical bulletin for its removal. A MWO 27 May 43 and and this June TB authorized it.

[browningautorifle]

the technical bulletin

And there it is in print, the screw needs occasionally to be tightened. Which can be true. I used to check as a matter of course. Not on my LL, but then I didn't shoot it much or carry it afield at all.