dangerous 1903a3 remanufactured Remington
Was at the Allentown, Pa. gun show this afternoon and found a Remington a3 with a clean 2 groove barrel. It has a scant stock and was reparked, so I bought it just for a shooter rifle. Once I got home i pulled the wood off and noticed the first 3/16" of the receiver ring was slightly tapered indicating this was once a drill rifle. The worst part is when I checked the head space it was way oversize like just closing with a .012 shim behind a nogo gauge which i believe is .002 more then a field gauge. I will contact this FFL dealer as I did paperwork on the purchase and see what his response is on Monday. I guess there is a lot of Saturday night specials out in circulation from people who think they are skilled enough to put a rifle together. The magazine cutoff area look very good and no sign of reworking where it would have also been welded. I would imagine that if a class 07 manufacture had restored it they would have to put their ID somewhere on the metal.
