The Wikipedia page for the M1903 rifle contains the following statement.

"In 1977, the Army located a rather large cache of un-issued M1903A3 rifles which were then issued to JROTC units as a replacement for their previously issued M1 Garand and M14icon rifles, which were then returned to Army custody due to concerns about potential break-ins at high school JROTC armories."

Is there more information available pertaining to this event like where the cache was located and how many were found, etc? This probably helps explain why so many high serial numbered O3A3's are found in like-new condition today.
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