This has to rank as the stupidest discussion to ever appear on this site and that takes some doing.
In the historical context, larger forends, pistol grip and Monte Carlo stocks, single triggers ALL were innovations over a hundred years ago, barely a good decade after the the guns that spawned the innovations were finally functioning fairly well. Innovations by SHOOTERS - not self styled preening hopeful dictators or slaves of style over function.
Those innovations supplanted the prior form in arenas of demanding gun control for the simple reason that they are BETTER!!
This has been edited down from several pages of maligning invective since I'm not of the opinion that worshipers of a mythical "aesthetic" would be able to comprehend more than the above - if even that. I mean any meathead that would carve up a purposebuilt irreplaceable gun to make it "look right" really deserves a proper flogging with a padless, gripless, knife edged combed POS.
JMO of course
have a day
Dr.WtS
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