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I'm not saying this is a post '86 sear but, I've seen a few examples of post '86 suppress-on sears and they all had poor hand stamps or jeweler's engraving.
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For that kind of jack, I'd find one that doesn't have any "issues". Yeah, it could take a while.
Also, that sear looks similar to the suppress-on sears.
I'm sure it was. Lots of guys ordered them, which wasn't a problem, and then form one'ed them.
I'm not saying this is a post '86 sear but, I've seen a few examples of post '86 suppress-on sears and they all had poor hand stamps or jeweler's engraving.
I'm getting all my lines crossed here, but I thought the Su-Press-On / George Dodson sears were stamped "SPO" under the back of the trip stop. That shelf would be a good area to check. There are also a couple other distinguishing features of the SPO sears, but I don't see them here.
This isn't to say Mr. Limanen didn't buy an unregistered "safety sear", but this looks much more crudely made, or homemade, to me. Frankly, I'm not sure this wasn't hand filed from aluminum bar stock until it was in spec. I don't think it was all milled as there is variation in the straight edges - the trip shelf looks straight, but look at the outside edges and the back corners. Conversely, it may have been hand fitted to the original receiver, so that could be the marks. While I can tell all this, I'm not good enough to tell if it was homemade before or after 1986.
Also, IIRC, I have read there were some outfits that sold replacement bodies post-Nov. 81 with other places selling replacement trips, pins, and springs. Seeing as these outfits were of various quality, this could well have been something as simple as a cheap $30 sear body that was F1'd into a rDIAS.