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it reminded me about something I forgot to write...one of the sawed off m79s has tape on the forend and barrel. If you cut them down to far they forend and barrel was likely to fall off when opened so often times that was done to prevent that from occuring. Sounds pretty ghetto but it worked. I have also read that the wood stocked ones were sought after specifically for cutting down...most m79s were equipped with brownish colored fibre glass stocks same material as the later M14 stocks and they were more difficult for the GIs to cut down and reshape.
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