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| Topic - hand guard with metal insert SR Posted: Dec 09 2018 at 8:25pm By New2brass |
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Al,
Sometimes answers get found out if you wait, Though not a decisive answer we can say your handguard was not a one-off fix. I was at a gun show and a seller had about a hundred similar handguards that look just like yours.
All had 4 rivets. Almost all had the ordnance bomb which was probably to accept the veneered section. he back looked to be cardboard but the top was a wood grain. Many marks such as U, M , SJ , W, P1, OI, PU. Some had numbers as well as letters. Here is the thing, we know some handguards were updated to 4 rivets from 2, however you can usually see the cutout where the old cut was and new cut started. Further, some marks looked legitimate and others suspicious like the PU and SJ. Then there is the mystery of the M. Many of the cuts for the barrel bar that mounts the sniperscopes were crudely cut. I am thinking these were made up overseas.  |
