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No. You have read it wrong. I have NOT shot it a lot. I thought I might have shot it in the past a FEW times, but given that it will NOT close on a factory round makes me think I never shot it and...

From this and other sources I agree that a bit of reaming should help, but I have never reamed a gun and do not plan to start now. Plus, I think I want a Hatcher hole drilled and the extractor to...

Thanks for the Florida recommendation. Dade is about a 5.5 hour drive from here. If I end up using Dow Arms, I'll mail it.

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I have had this RIA 1903 s/n 151,XXX for about 42 years, and I may have put a round or two through it long, long ago before I really knew anything about it.

I got around to ordering a Go and No-Go...

Around 1951, my uncle sporterized Rock Island Arsenal 1903 Springfield serial 344453 for my father. I have that weapon plus a batch of 1903 parts, most of which probably came off the weapon. There...

Thanks for this. Wonder what some of the abbreviations like SHT mean and why most of the failures are grouped in two spans of a few years?

Speaking of headstamps in general here is a handfull I just grabbed from my handy box of reloads. Most of my .30-06 ammo was inherited from my father whose brother was a gunsmith who sporterized the...

The photo of the NM butt plate shows rhe faintest outline of the cleaning tube hole, but it does not appear complete with the hinge section. Is there really anything there?

I wouldn't know what a NM butt plate looked like, but off the cuff I would wonder why a match plate might have a cleaning compartment cover.

Great information. This rifle has no added vent on the left side, just the one I showed in the last photograph. But a 1942 barrel and rifle proofed to as high as 70,000 psi is a win!

Here are two photos showing the "extra" vent hole on the right side of the receiver, one with and one without a flashlight shone into the receiver showing it is drilled all the way through. If this...

Ah, yes, my mistake. You see why this particular gun seems to defy classification. I guess it is just a rebuilt 1903.

So, despite its elderly s/n, would this be considered an A3?

This bayonet with 16-inch blade fits my 1903 Springfield perfectly, but I do not find it mentioned as manufactured for the rifle. Is it a 1910 manufacture of an M1905?125657125658125659

Yes, it is RIA over FK. I have often thought it interesting that they bothered to rebuild a "low serial number" 1903, but maybe this one was heat treated or wartime demands dictated using everything...

I traded a Chicom Tokarev I got while evacuating Saigon back in the early 1980s. I am not exactly sure how it is classified today (A-whatever), but it is clearly a 1942 rebuild with a scant stock. ...