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Gas cylinders (not "tubes" as in AR nomenclature) are stainless steel and prone to finish loss on a diligently cleaned GI rifle.

The flush nut rear sight, early design, looks a lot like the T105E1...

The WW2 rifle *if* it truly passes the eyeball test for originality. Don't forget the follower rod.

Maybe a guy figures out how evil Moscow is and has been since the beginning, and wants to invest his energies differently. Wouldn't fault anyone coming to such a conclusion.

Could be. If someone grabs the wrong punch, well really who cares?

The memo itself is interesting. The date suggests some officer had a big idea that could be turned into a pointless order that...

Agree with Chuck. Maybe old wood, maybe new wood. Definitely not old stamps.

Linseed oil will also give a cast to finished metal.

Use of a good lubricant is also recommended. Plus don't make the knob/threads so all the work if you have a tight assembly and want it to stay tight. That is, use some sideways thump pressure on the...

Not using a VPN, had the same thing for a bit. Then it went away. Seems like a glitch on their end.

CMP Repro stock?

That's quite a sweet spot....enough money to buy those autoloaders, too little brains to know what they're buying.

Note that from 1943 onwards Mauser Oberndorf (byf) was putting high quality walnut stocks on service rifles sporadically. Speculation is that they had a pre-war stock of wood for ceremonial or...

Sometimes it's soldiers with time on their hands working those stocks.

I have one as well, purchased from DuPage years ago. Interesting piece of wood that was GI boned to a nice finish, then sent to Greece and received fresh crisp stamps, some in the Greek alphabet. S...

How long have you been looking? And what is your budget if the "right" SC comes along? Depending on your answers to these questions, this will seem like one to buy or one to pass.

As long as we're on early RIA '03s, here is the "S" stamp on the back of the bolt handle. As I understand things, this practice was discontinued within a few thousand bolts.
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Very much so. Wanted to make sure I knew how to steer clear of Chinese repo junk in the area of Garand buttstock tools.

An original early RIA receiver finish is blotchy.

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Very nice.

Might seem strange but first thing I thought when I looked at your pictures was "I bet that rifle smells old."

And that IMO is a good thing.

Corollary to what Chuck wrote is to know the condition of your old surplus. Some of it is still good to go, but some is not. Pull some bullets, get a feel for what you have with that old ammo. If...

Chuck nailed it...

Case head failure in the SHT action is what you want to avoid. Modern factory ammo (no reloads) is your best bet.

If not mistaken that SN is past the rod bayonet era but squarely in the Model 1903/'05 era, per Brophy. Which means it was originally chambered in .30-03.

I defer to the experts however.
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Joe that no bolt stock is in insane condition. No cracks in it that you can see?

I did this with a Kokolus reproduction M1903 stock and got good results. I would not do this with an original military stock.

Get a big garbage bag, long enough to hold the entire stock in it. ...

I had a can of that. KA73 brass is pretty hard and took extra time to remove the crimp. Wasn't all that accurate in a bolt gun so I pulled it down and shot up the powder and bullets. The brass...

Hi Ridolpho,

Kroil and hot/cold have been applied, so far without the piston coming loose. More of the same may take a long time, but patience is necessary. The gun is slightly unusual, an all...