Remington 1903A3 Project.
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;
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The donor
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First mock up
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Moving along, donor mated to barrel and stock semi finished and bedding. The barrel is free floating.
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With the Leopold scope and rings.
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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.
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A couple targets;
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Here's a link to the slide show with a few extra pictures. They are not coming up in order though.
Enjoy....
Kurt
