You can remove the wire from the rifle, but the 60+ years of time on the unwrapped part will never look like the wrapped part. Otherwise, the wire wrapped rifles can be fired, although some will argue that that was only in emergencies.
The cup simply clipped on the front of the rifle, and could be removed in minutes. The wire wrapping was only to prevent the forestock from splintering from the extra pressures of firing the heavy grenade.
There was a bit of an adjustment (if I recall) on the cup to adapt it to the varying lengths of the barrel stub. But once adjusted for a particular rifle, it would go on or off in a few seconds.
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