Of course, if one were to purchase a gun that had already been altered in a "substandard" fashion (as I did)and the gun was not too badly "butchered" (my gun came close) then one has pretty much a clean canvas to make whatever "good gunsmithing" modifications one wants with a clean conscience. What's to hurt? In my case, I now have a gun that is even more useful than when it came from the factory at a price that cannot be matched by any "pristine" old gun, much less a new piece from "Old Blighty".