Remington 1903A3 Project.

[supercub]

This is a project I started awhile back and finished this spring. It began with a McGowen Heavy barrel I picked up off ebay. Being it was a 1.25" tapered to 1'' I would need a custom stock of some sort. I put the barrel aside thinking that would be awhile. I have alerts on stocks and shortly there after got an alert on a Bishop stock cut for heavy barrel, exactly what I needed. It was something I didn't know Bishop even made back in the day and it wasn't hard winning that one with the huge barrel channel. It was semi inleted and needed quite a bit of fitting and contouring. That took some time and in the meanwhile I needed a donor receiver, probably an A3 already drilled and tapped for a scope mount. I used a Remington 03 bare receiver I have for the initial inletting while I went hunting for a sporterized A3. I found 3, couldn't bring myself to mess with two but the third would work. A sporterized Remington A3 with a SC 4 groove barrel in great shape which I could sell to offset the costs. Once I had all the parts and pieces I had the barrel threads cut, the muzzle crowned and the whole thing blue printed. The bolt I had picked up from another sported a couple years ago that had been polished. If it looks like an A4 bolt, you are correct, it was and I had it re blued. The trigger guard is a Springfield milled unit that has the stake marks commonly seen on Marine 03 rifles. The rest of the parts are Smith Corona and Springfield, I tried to get all represented. I ended up using a Night force scope although some of the pictures show a Leopold off my AR.
A fun project that came together with parts from some folks with the same intent that never got around to doing it. I wasn't going to fall into that trap. It shoots well and isn't picky about what you feed it.

The beginning;


The donor



First mock up



Moving along, donor mated to barrel and stock semi finished and bedding. The barrel is free floating.



With the Leopold scope and rings.



Finally with the Night force scope. I had to mill out the Weaver bases to take the rings as they are for a Picatinny rail set up. The scope weighs around 2-3 lbs and you don't want it moving. The whole set up tips the scale at 15 lbs give or take.



A couple targets;






Here's a link to the slide show with a few extra pictures. They are not coming up in order though.


Enjoy....

Kurt

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[supercub]

Here's the missing slide show link. Maybe the mod could put it in as we can't edit.

Kurt


Remington 1903A3 Target Projec Slideshow by Supercub99 | Photobucket

[Salt Flat]

Supercub, That is about as nice as it gets. You did a great job on the stock. I know it takes a lot more time and effort to bring together than most people realize. It looks like you used all top notch components to start with. Kudos! Salt Flat

[pickax]

Absolutely all top notch! I'm hoping the twist rate will be good for heavy bullets and longer ranges.
Let us know how that goes!

[supercub]

Thanks guys, it's very special considering you both have an appreciation for what it really takes in time and sometimes just a little luck.

A guy on another forum came up with a floor plate for the trigger guard, it was missing it when I bought that. He went to the trouble of sending a picture of several so I could pick out the one that best matched the finish. Little things like that make it special to be a part of this community.


Kurt

[supercub]

Absolutely all top notch! I'm hoping the twist rate will be good for heavy bullets and longer ranges.
Let us know how that goes!

The #8 profile barrel has a 1-10 twist rate and it's 26 inches. So far I've shot 150, 155 and 180's with the same grouping. All at 100-112 yards as that's max at the local range. Sometime this spring I'll take it up North to another venue that has a 300 yard range and see how it does. The 80 yard target was a day when the wind was knocking everything over beyond that. H4831sc and Varget are the favored powders so far.

[northwalesfred]

thanks guys what about using reloaded ammo

[martin08]

Most of my projects go in the restoration vs. build direction, so normally I reserve comment. But dang. It's difficult to argue with results like that. Nice job.

[supercub]

Most of my projects go in the restoration vs. build direction, so normally I reserve comment. But dang. It's difficult to argue with results like that. Nice job.

Same here Martin, I've worked on a number of restoration so this was new territory for me. I've always been somewhat intrigued with the Mann Accuracy guns and of course the well done sporters from the masters and others. This is a one off combination of both I guess. I will say, it's become one of my most favorites and a lot of fun to shoot.