The NSST may have been the first to come out. I wasn't around when the BSS was rolled out. I was going off of what I'd been told.

Replacement- I suppose I should have said that the long tang on the sporter goes down the stock further, ALMOST to the point that the checkering stops. It does stop a tad short of the checkering, but nothing near what the gun in GI ad does.

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