Star Gauge Numbers on Early NM Rifles

[Chuckindenver]

if i remember right , didnt they use the Krag during NM during that time??

[Tom Jackson]

"C/135" is a steel lot code. There is a similar number mid-way down the barrel on my USMC 1918 RIA M1903. RIA did manufacture National Match M1903s in 1919 - I have one: No. 387833/ RIA-2-19. They are not marked with star-gauge numbers or symbols.

[Jim Tarleton]

Tom,

Your rifle is in good company. I believe there were 200 of them.

Jim
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387597 RINM 07/24/1919 1919 NM AMMO TEST

387723 RINM 07/24/1919 1919 NM AMMO TEST

387833 RINM 03/28/2009 Tom's Rifle

387885 RINM 3/24/1919 1919 NM W/SWEPT BACK BOLT (Campbell P53)

388027 RINM 07/24/1919 1919 NM AMMO TEST

388124 RINM 07/24/1919 1919 NM AMMO TEST

[Clyde from Carolina]

Very interesting posts, and as always, thanks Tom for the chance to see such stunning rifles.