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Saved Two More
I just recently finished restoring a couple of '03-A3's, a Remington and a Smith-Corona. The Remington I bought as a complete rifle that had a mixture of parts from every era of the '03 series production.
The S-C was a bit more challenging as all I had to start with was an action and a barrel.
This is what I traded for, Feb. 1943 production:
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1550XL-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1549XL-1.jpg
Original six groove barrel
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1555XL-1.jpg
Oh darn!
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1559XL-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1558XL-1.jpg
I managed to score a VERY nice S-C stock off of evilbay with handguard for what I considered to be a decent price and the tone for the restoration was set: Try to make it as nice as possible, using as many correct parts as I could reasonably source.
I know that it is certainly not perfect, in addition to now sporting a Remington barrel, I have a later production large bow trigger guard and a couple of small items that I want to upgrade.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1568XL-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1597XL-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1595XL-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1607XL-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1604XL-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1603XL-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...MG1608XL-1.jpg
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The Remington
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Opps! I seem to have double posted a picture.
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Nice looking rifles. It's getting harder to collect up the parts for building up a rifle. I used to find springfield parts for a dollar or two at the gunshows but not any more. The Springfield parts are drying up fast. It's still fun to save one though. It looks like you found a couple of good actions to start with. Salt Flat
