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The last number denotes the up-dated spec sheet it was manufactured to . The -28 is more up-to-date than the -5 . You would have to read the sheets to see exactly what the change was . Could be to improve performance or just to speed up production . Whenever the government updated the specs , they would have to pay the commercial firms to update / change tooling / etc. Often times they determined the update was not worth it , so often the commercial production was running earlier #s than the government plants ( ie . , the -5 may have been made after the -28s ) . This is real apparent in the M1 Garand production between SA and Winchester .
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One thing to keep in mind is that often as not the revision number (the number after the - following the drawing number) didn't change the part at all. sometimes it was an administrative thing like redrawing the entire sheet because it got too messy, or simply repositioning the detail drawings on the sheet.

From my studies over the last 12 years and looking at literally thousands of drawings and the change orders, the government, to save money demanding changes let the manufacturer implement the change as they saw fit. Sometimes the Ordnance dept. bit the bullet (no pun intended) and demanded the change immediately. A good example was elimination the hole for the rivet and the bolt latch itself.
 

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ODA-113 I don't have the part your looking for. I had to make the top and bottom plate as well as the trigger. I used the plans off briwningmgs.com. I sold them when I found original spade grips.
I have been collecting ANM2 parts for 12 years. Gun shows, on line and I just found my last part in an auction.
Keep hunting it's a long journey.
 
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