Unless the gun is otherwise near perfect I wouldn't even bother replacing it if it was me. If it is just a shooter I'd live with it.
The reason it is buggered up is that some bubba who thought he was a gunsmith didn't even have enough basic knowledge to know that the threads are left hand (RIGHTY loosey, LEFTY tighty).
Naturally, thinking he knew what he was doing, he didn't bother to ask anybody. He just grabbed it with his trusty pliers and proceeded to strip the knurling off the end as he tightened the snot out of it - instead of loosening it.
I bought an otherwise 95% model 65-5 (pictured in my avatar) that had the same problem. It was worth replacing to bring the whole gun up to 95%. Had it been in any less than a 90% perfect condition I wouldn't even have bothered.
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