03 History help please

**bigdummy** · 10-23-2021 06:37 PM

I got a Springfield Arsenal 03 recently. Arsenal rebuilt with circle a barrel dtd. 9/43, scant stock. Serial num. 847561, anyone know how I can find out where this rifle may have been to?

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**Rick the Librarian** · 10-24-2021 09:19 PM

If the barrel has an RA stamp over the date, it was installed by a previous civilian owner.

Records on individual rifles are pretty hard to come by.

**Randy A** · 11-22-2021 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by bigdummy

I got a Springfield Arsenal 03 recently. Arsenal rebuilt with circle a barrel dtd. 9/43, scant stock. Serial num. 847561, anyone know how I can find out where this rifle may have been to?

I’m guessing the circle has an “S” in it, would be Sedgley. Request an SRS check. Maybe you’ll get lucky!

**RCS** · 11-22-2021 08:54 PM

Dose your barrel have this stamp S in circle ?

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