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With the exception of the holes for the scope drilled into the receiver, your rifle looks a lot like mine. I considered bringing her back to life, but after much thought and input from members here,...

My father got the new grips in the mail about a week or so ago. He said they fit extremely well. Haven't heard anything about the new magazine i ordered. They said it was back ordered, but i...

funny you should say that. i just ordered him a magazine from triple K. I hope it's all i thought it was.

My father came across a Sauer und Sohn 38H pistol. after doing some research we found out that it's a variation 4, wartime produced nonmilitary pistol. After tearing it down, cleaning, and...

Anyone have any issues with shooting 125grain rounds? I bought 2 boxes of remington coreloct the other day. I thought i had grabbed 2 boxes of 150 grain but i had a box of 150 and a box of 125.
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Thank you so much, and to everyone else, for all of the helpful information. I will have to forward this information to my father so he can learn a few things about what he has.

Nice job, that looks pretty sweet after the resto. Hopefully i can start acquiring parts to bring mine back to life soon.

I Knew it would cost some money to bring her back, so the guestimate of $200 actually sounds pretty good to me. I haven't had the head spacing checked but it has had 20 rounds put through it...

I did a little research and this is what i came up with. Please feel free to correct me if i am mistaken.

It sounds like this is a model 1870. It started out as an 1863 muzzle loader, and was...

It was a gift from my father last year for christmas. At the time i was going to keep it as is for a hunting rifle for my wife. Lets just say that she doesn't want anything to do with gutting or...

it does indeed fire 50-70. My father found that out after someone took a casting of the chamber and told him it was 50-90, so he spent a small fortune on those only to find out that they wouldn't...

I had received a Springfield 1903 last year for Christmas from my father. He had been given that particular 1903, another 1903, a single shot .22 pistol, and this Springfield 1863. I had posted on...

here are a few pictures of my fathers Springfield 1863 Trapdoor rifle... these are the only photos so far as it took me 45 minutes on the phone to walk him through how to email them to me. If i have...

THE 45-90's? he had 50-90's originally until another gunsmith took a cast and found out it was a 50-70. He has not shot any of the 50-90's if that's what you mean.

I'm not sure what it says in...

thanks for the correction.

Just did a little research and it looks like it was an M1863 muzzle loader that was converted to a trap door for the 50-70 cartridge which was the predecessor M1873 Trap Door Springfield.

It's up at my fathers house in PA and unfortunately i'm down in NC. I'll see if i can get him to take a few pictures of it and if so i'll post them on here. Originally he was told it was a 50-90...

thanks, i was unaware that it was only a protector, not meant to be installed all the time. I do plan on shooting it so i guess i will not be looking for one.

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i should have remembered that... someone said the same thing about my mosin negant. except it has a pin rather than a blade, so i was told to put a roll pin onto the sight pin and file down until i...

i have a 1931 1903 and i was curious if those were came with the front sight hood like i have seen on a few other rifles? Or were they only designed for the later variants, such as the 03-A1's and...

i did read that about the sight being in the down position was for your mentioned range whish is kind of disappointing. If i have to put the sight leaf up i'm going to be paranoid that it will never...

[QUOTE=2aimtrue;203965]Very nice old rifle. And someone just gave it to you?
Glad to see it is mostly unmolested (except for the nice metal finishing). It would be bee-u-tiful in uniform and it...

I recently was given what was thought to be just a run of the mill 30-06 hunting rifle. After further inspection i realized that it was a Springfield Armory Model 1903. The barrel and receiver was...