Yea, when I bought my first one! :(
Printable View
Its also very possible that some vendors are sitting on old stock, and may have extra rubber end pieces and/ or CTR without them.
I picked a FDE CTR a month or so ago at a local gunstore and of course, they had the pads in seperate bags for another $20.00, mine's mil-spec also and they go through alot of stock at this gunstore so I doubt it's that old, I think some less reputable dealers take them out of the box and seperately package them for xtra profit.. Just my opinion though..