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Congratulations again! It appears the Greeks serialized your bolt to your receiver. It's not a big thing but now you know that at one time the Greeks checked headspace & matched that both to that receiver.
Now for the bad news. Your stock has pins rather than bolts which means two things. First, the stock predates the receiver by about a year. Second, pins proved to be an unsatisfactory method of keeping the stock from cracking (which is why they abandoned pins & went back to bolts). At the least, make sure there is a .1" gap between the tang & stock. Make sure your stock bolts are always tight. At the worst, you make need to replace the stock.
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02-04-2012 05:01 PM
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Well, after all of my reading and research. This is what i've come up with. Built between Jan/Feb 1944. Original barrel on it 8-44. All parts have an "R" stamped in them except for the extractor claw has an "S" stamp. The small parts appear blued, the reciever, barrel are grey parkerized and are all worn evenly, which leads me to believe most parts are original or atleast Remington. But, it does have the rebuild/re-inpsect stamp RIA EB in the stock. Also, the bolt handle is vibra-peened with the last 4 of the S/N, and the stock has the last 4 stamped into it as well. It's a straight, pinned stock. It fits very good and all pieces are uniform in color and character. So maybe a Greek Lend/Lease? Any other marks I should look for to confirm that? Or if anyone could shed some light to this rifle or atleast let me know if any of my research is correct. Thanks for all the replies so far everyone!
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It definitely sounds like a Greek reimport. It looks like a good shooter.
The sight does look crooked and offset. If it is zeroed with some windage adjustment left, not sure how much it matters, although any windage adjustments that you make with the windage screw will probably not be uniform.
Complete rear sights are readily available..might try a new one and see where the rounds fall.
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Lend Lease ended in August 1945; Greece is listed as receiving $357,000 in weapons through the program. At most a tiny smidgen of this amount might have been small arms. More likely the small arms went to Greece early in the Cold War through a variety of military aid programs. It was touch and go for awhile with Greece being under a very real threat of being taken over by the commies.
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