I can believe that-- Hard to give a Cutts or the shotgun tube away today-must be a niche market. I will say that my exam of this older M70 showed to be a excellent job of machining the threaded muzzle, no interruption to the front sight base at all- wonder if shooting it with the muzzle removed would affect the accuracy older M70's with the lead lapped barrel bores were known for. RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..