Search:

You're right. I pulled my A3 out of the safe and asked myself, what were you thinking of.

The original A3 finish was a Parkerized action with a blued barrel, if you want to look original. The parts were originally finished separately and assembled afterwards. I've seen arsenal...

Key dates in RIA serialization:

RIA 285507 First Double HT Receiver in May, 1918
RIA 319921 (First SN of August, 1918 - Hatcher's Notebook pg 220) First Nickel Steel (NS) receiver made soon after...

All 97's will slam-fire when pumped with the trigger held back. This is no indication that the shotgun was originally a riot gun. I take advantage of this when I am training a new shooter to take...

I'll bet that agent's supervisor would have given a different answer. Regs require the number to be unique. Manufacturers register blocks of SN's with the ATF these days to ensure lack of...

Going by what I remember from looking into this in the past, replacement SN's have to go in a conspicuous location where it isn't easily removed, be at least .003" deep and at least 1/16" tall.
...

What it looks like to me... is that refinishing made the SN faint and shallow and they touched it up with an electric vibro-pencil. If you look closely the 3 has doubles line and the 1 extends below...

Thanks, John. It's too bad my A3's stock was thrashed when I got it. It's turning out to have been more original than I had thought.

As the fellas said, the differences between your rifles are mainly because someone "dressed up" the S-C. Your cocking knob (firing pin) is probably chrome-plated rather than polished steel.

Well, there's one of my pet peeves: improper nomenclature.

"Furniture" is something that you add to something that is already usable to make it more usable.

A house is a usable shelter even if...

John,

Would my SN 3518619 be more appropriately adorned with an olive or a blued bayonet band? I have both on hand.

I might add that the olive band was on the rifle when I bought it. I put a...

Ah, good thought. I tend to forget how isolated turn-of-the-century South Dakota was from the "modern" world. And Grandpa Omar was known as a man who liked his catalog shopping.
...

Here are some more family photos from roughly 1905-1915. If the moderators think this is too far off topic...well, I understand. Home photography became practical, if not necessarily affordable, in...

Emri, here's some photos from the family album. Great-grandpa was a young man back in the horse and buggy days.

Omar Hague (1865-1939) with his Winchester lever gun:...

and I'll say it again because I appear to be the only one saying it.

The LN rifles were made more than 90 years ago. Since then, they have been rebuilt, welded into drill rifles, loaned to...

Rick is correct, that's a bronze star.

I asked Dad why he had one and he said, "The Army said I was entitled to it, so I thought I'd go ahead and accept it." In Dad's papers, I found a reference...

Combat Medics go up against the same dangers as Combat Infantrymen for the most part but don't get to carry arms and have to ignore the hell around them to help their squad mates. Until March, 1945...

On March 17th, two days after his 86th birthday, my father passed away. Of all his accomplishments in a long and productive life - faithful husband, devoted father, college graduate, chemical...

He (Ed Murphy) was doing research on ejection seats using a rocket sled. After an apparently successful run of the sled, the instruments showed the test was a failure. Upon investigation, it was...

Or you could use the HTML wrapper https://www.milsurps.com/images/editor/html.gif to display code thusly:


https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2009/03/100_0106-1.jpg

I sent him an email and he modified the relisting to show he isn't suggesting the "star" is something it isn't.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=124476358

John, do you know what...

Tom,

FY1939 for Army Ordnance ended on 6/30/1939. The last star-gauged barrel shown in my data collection was dated "6-39". The next SA barrel date in my data is stamped "12-41" (obviously...

Chuck,

Maybe I'm being overly generous, but the seller doesn't use the word "gauge" and there IS a "star" on the muzzle that looks parked over:
...

Look for this symbol above the message window for URL image posting:

https://www.milsurps.com/images/editor/insertimage.gif

Click on it, and paste your URL in the popup.

Click the icon that looks like a mountain range (when you hover on it, it says "Insert Image") and paste your URL in the popup. About as easy as easy gets.
...