As others noted, pull the stock tight against the shoulder & use a firm "cheek weld" against the comb with your face. This allows you & the rifle to move as one mass and minimizes perceived recoil.
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As others noted, pull the stock tight against the shoulder & use a firm "cheek weld" against the comb with your face. This allows you & the rifle to move as one mass and minimizes perceived recoil.
If you make the stock "factory new" it will never match the condition of the metal. I'd clean it a bit (concentrated Simple Green) to remove grime & grease and then finish it with Tung Oil. The...
Your bolt has a curved handle and all such bolts are either DHT or NS; no SHT, curved handle bolts were made by the government.
John Beard posts his comprehensive bolt chart on ViShooter's M1903...
The artillery fire in the background looks real enough. Perhaps they are in a reserve trench some disatnce behind the front. They must consider it safe enough to expose themselves as both the...
If it were all correct, $1400 may not be out of line for national match rifle with a star gauged barrel. Seeing that it is not correct, half or less, depending on condition. How is the bore? ...
Fulton Armory has some info about welded receivers & sleeved barrels. http://www.fulton-armory.com/%5Cfaqs%5CM1G-FAQs%5CWeld.htm
I use a Compass Lake .22 upper practicing for matches. I bought a S&W AR15-22 because a neighbor lady wanted to learn how to shoot an AR15.
I believe this is how he spends his time now.
Phil:
Consider a CMP Garand. The various Service Grades are top quality and the CMP has never sold a welded receiver. Buy with no fear!
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Chuck:
Great shooting but how insensitive;) No pllar bedding? No nano-honed, trued up action? No match barrel? No set trigger? No 30 mm tube, 300x, AO mil dot scope with wind compensating...
The welded (not re-welded) rifles fall into "good, better, best" categories according to the care taken in welding the halves together and the clean up milling. One early welder got a large batch of...
See item #14 on the M1 Garand home page, the one that mentions "born on dates".
The only CA approved gun safes I have seen were .25" steel plate. After you put you guns inside, a state approved contractor welds the door shut. This has proved to be a wonderful program as...
Is it possible to return the rifle to the seller? How was it represented? If the seller represented the rifle to you in such as way that you belived it was unaltered, I'd ask for my money back. If...
Here's an excellent Mosberg site. http://home.epix.net/~damguy/index.html Your rifle should be from a March, 1942 contract.
John was involved in scouts for many years. Nearly 20 years ago, he led a group of scouts, on bicycle, down the Natchez Trace for 200+ miles. Two of my sons made the trip with John, shown here in...
If you haven't already done so, replace the op rod spring & clip latch spring with one from Orion 7 or Garand Gear. they both offer excellent replacement op rod springs. The one in you rifle is...
John Beard once told me the first 30,000 Remington M1903s were sent to NZ. The rifles were stamped on the butt stock with a NZ, a broad arrow & a 4-digit number. They were not issued & returned...
Very neat! The baby is something like a .23/30 Morris, IIRC.
Also, make sure the stock or debris is not binding the trigger or sear.
Your M1916 SpanisH Mauser is chambered for the 7.62 CETME, not the NATO round. The two are dimensionally identical but the Spanish round is loaded to lower pressure in deference to the M1916's...
This is on the stock of a M1903A3 from the CMP.
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Nothing odd about it at all; the CMP is a quasi-government corporation established by Congress in 1903 to provide arms & ammunitions to citizens. The Army supplies the arms & the CMP sells to...
As Jan says, it appears to be a 1899 carbine stock or a very well done imitation. I take it there is no sling swivel on the left side? The stock appears to be in good shape - no missing chips...
Congratulations on a nice find! Your receiver was made in May, 1942. A fellow who goes by ViShooter has an excellent M1903 reference site, http://www.vishooter.net/m1903.html