psteinmayer wrote on Jan 1^st, 2019 at 4:34pm:

I agree about the "Purists" too!  Some of these so called "Purists" are the same guys who blow hard about having their Garand be "As Manufactured" with matching numbers and absolutely museum quality finish... something we all know is practically impossible (Garand parts are not serialized... they are assembly numbers, and most issued arms go through some type of arsenal rebuild at one point or another).

Don't forget battlefield recovered guns.  They put them in a pile and put together everything that was not battle damaged and handed off it to the next guy in line.