![]() Later, they pretty much marked all of them for a while with the star, meaning only that the rifle was within specs and met their normal quality standard. ![]() The star originally meant that a particular rifle was spot-on to the standard specs - not that it was better assembled or hand-fitted in any special way, just that the parts that came out of the bins for that rifle happened to mate up perfectly to the standard. In any rifle design, the parts are each spec'd to specified dimesions, + or - accepted tolerances. ![]() Something I didn't know until just the other day - if your M39 (not A) has a star stamped on the end of the upper tang, it means the factory gunsmithing inspector determined the rifle to be of higher grade manufacturing than the standardWell, sort of.
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