bought a sporter 1903A4

[presidents100]

This rifle was customized/ polished blued.. The readable Remington is upside down on the left side of the receiver. sn/ 499278* Z is polished out.
Question When was this made????? Barrel is 2 grove date markings are polished out/ mark under front sight is there//Scope base taped holes are there 2x plus a third one has been added..
Great looking Walnut stock and 03 trigger housing and plate..Engraved

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[JGaynor]

Your rifle would have been assembled in February 1944 most likely with a Dec 43 or Jan 44 barrel. The 3rd hole in the receiver was added by the person who sporterized it.

[Neal Myers]

I'm confused. If the SN was polished out, how do you know what it was?

Neal

[five 0]

I'm confused. If the SN was polished out, how do you know what it was?

Neal

I think he meant the Z of the serial number was polished out.

[Randy A]

Your rifle is not a Z series, the Z's had a prefix, not a suffix. Also the Z prefix rifles started right around 4,000,000 and ended right around Z4,002,920. They only made 28 to 2900 of them. Your number is way too high to be a Z, but I will bet that your last digit is a 7 and that would make it early in the final production run of A4s. Still made in Feb of 44 though.

[JGaynor]

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The "Z" prefix was used anytime a duplicate serial number was detected. They are relatively uncommon except for the so-called "Z" series where a large batch of A4 s/n's were inadvertently used on A3's.

Highly unlikely that the rifle under discussion ever had a "Z" as part of the s/n.

I have about half a dozen examples where A3's were marked with the "Z" as well.