Yep, I've seen late 99EG's with fluted combs. Don't know what the cutoff is, didn't think to save all of the serial numbers on them. Once they started drilling and tapping the EG receivers for scopes, I would expect they probably started with folding rear sights.
EG in 358... good find!
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