I think you need to go reread that thread. I couldn't find that anybody was saying the gun was a legit RS when I just reread it. And nobody said a Lyman 57 was legit on an RS. Steve said it wasn't an RS, I said it wasn't an RS, somebody else flat out said it was an R that had a Lyman 57 put on it.

There WAS talk about when RS's switched from Lyman to Redfield, but nobody was talking Lyman 57 - though we didn't explicitly say Lyman 30 1/2. I think you were reading Lyman 57 into that, and yes, a newbie without Murray's might have missed that we were talking Lyman 30 1/2's.


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