Originally Posted by
frogboy
You’re correct, but the guards with long tangs were/are rather fragile and easy to break.
As the design changed the belief is that BSA would use parts until they ran out and then the choice would be to effectively to use a later style guard.
But I haven’t seen a gun from the first batch (103-1129) with a straight hand stock, so it might be that a previous owner replaced the stock with a later one. Who knows?
Mine does not look easy to break, don't know how that would happen.
Baz
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