Question about SRS

Hey guys...I haven't kept up with this, but how do you go about subscribing to SRS to use the data base? I used to use it when it was free and found it real handy. Thanks for any info. :cheers:

Try this website:

U.S.MARTIAL ARMS & Springfield Research Newsletter - Home

Thanks Rick!

If I understood your question correctly, a membership does not give you access to the data base. It only allows you to order letters.

AHA!!! So how do you get access to the database these days? Or do you? TIA

According to their website, membership gets you a "reasonable" (their word) number of look-up requests, not access to their data base.

You can alos buy the 4 volume set of book with the serial date base. The serial number data base covers not only 1903 , but M1 Garands, Carbines 1911, trapdoor, Krag, Colt percussion, Colt SAA, sharps, Winchester shotguns and more.

Sounds like buying the set of books is the way to get unlimited access to the database. So maybe that would explain why I see posters requesting somebody to look up a serial number, huh?

Remember the data is old. SRS is working on comming out with an update to the set of books but I do not know when.

Mark, In reading the June 09 issue of MARTIAL ARMS COLLECTOR Mr. Gagner states no further books will be done and in fact there is no longer a list of MAC serial number books for sale. there were five books V.1-3 then V.4 in 1995 and V.4 in 1999??
So are the books even for sale any longer? He does state a new on-line service is in the works, so it may be some type of pay for number data service.

Tom, you are correct I am sorry for the error. They are working on a online data base next year. I was thinking they would also be making a new publication. The memory does not work so well sometimes.

Mark, E-MAIL this morning from SRS, NO books are currently available for sale.
And the comment that all data is copywrited and subject to US laws.
Looks like if you have a book set it would be wise not to sell it.:banghead:

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is SRS?

Springfield Research Service. They have accumulated a long list of serial numbers of specific rifles, arms, pistols, etc. from the National Archives and other places that indicate a snapshot in time of where that arm was on a given day (at Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec for instance). For a fee, they will send you documentation of your arm's snapshot history. In some cases, it can increase the value of the arm significantly.

Jim

Thanks Jim. I'll have to post the s.n.'s of my 03 and 03/A3 to see what other members can come up with. I would love to have the history of these rifles.