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This is my Remington O3A3, I also just picked up a 1903 Springfield Mark 1. These are my favorite military rifle mostly because my first bolt action hunting rifle was a Rock Island that had been partially sporterized. This was in 1972, I found a semi finished maple stock which I completed myself. I was able to have the barrel crowned, the bolt altered for scope use and drilled and taped for scope mounts at my high school machine shop class. It was a different time back then.
What date is your barrel my Remington is only about 1000 rifles before yours. I think mine is 9/43
I also remember bringing in a Cooey 22 to high school machine shop and refinishing the all the parts and stock. We were given marks for anything we restored on the side. Our shop teacher was a big outdoors man, who hand made trout nets (amongst other projects) in class with a custom wood steamer. Trades classes kept many of us coming to school. The .22 is still in regular use,now with my nephew and his boys on their farm.