One thing that is interesting about the RT. The forearms are all the same. But the barrel lengths are quite variable even within caliber. Some 22" some 24". Seems to be no rhyme or reason, so IMO they had a batch of the same forearms, for whatever reason, and they slapped whatever barrels they had on just to make a gun.
Remember, you couldn't hardly buy a hunting rifle for about 5 years during the war and right after the war American consumers were starving for hunting rifles so anything you could slap together in 1945 or 46 could be sold.
