What got me looking for a scratch preventor was a gunbroker ad that sold these neat multi colored squares of plastic with even a keychain hole. I'm not too young to learn just too cheap to spend $6 bucks on something I can do for myself.
Whenever I log on, Handejector keeps urging me to post not realizing how shy I am, so here is a tip I picked up. For all us OFFs (old fat fxxts) who used to wear the three piece uniform with the starched white shirts that used collar stays; those flat thin plastic stays work great in...
Well like the Doc says, "if you look" long enough. Front latches from England? I acquired a case for the long bbl that had these roundish screw-on latches & thought, crap someone's replaced the originals. Now I know. So what's the story Doc44? From England?