Mike and Lee,

I see the depression, but I thought the beads went deeper into the blade. I know there were white and red post front sights available at this time, and I wonder if the little depression was just a positioning aid for a small square piece of plastic that was once on the surface of the blade but is now gone.

The gun's final price seems steep to me by 50 percent. I'm a guy who has paid a thou for an early postwar K-22 because it was in good shape and had a prewar ejector knob, but I don't think I would have gone past $900 on this one. But differences of opinion are what make horse races.

Not that I bet, you understand.

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David Wilson