RIA 1903 381XXX. Good? Bad? Ugly.

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sight protector were used by the NM rifles along with the O'Hare front sight protector. Ive never seen them on anything but a 1922 - 1939 SA 1903A1 NM rifle. It was not USGI issue, but used by the competition team members for meets at Camp Perry, etc.
Stock repair looks robust. It looks serviceable and ANY '03 finger groove stock is worth salvaging if possible. They are THAT precisions! Inspect the face of the fore end of the stock, and if it is marked "RI" you have what I consider to be a very rare and hard to find RIA S Stock from 1917 or later ($$$, even with the repair!)
Your rifle (or at least the stock) has been thru the Augusta Arsenal for post WWII rework and inspection. That explains the few incorrect parts. The barrel is normally found on a 1927 or later SA 1903A1 rifle. I find SA barrels from 1922 thru 1939 VERY desirable. They are some of the best in the world. Even if they dont have the star mark at the 6 o'clock position of the crown they were gauged and passed, they just werent among the (what we would call today) AQL sampled) marked barrels. Ive never seen one mounted to a late 1918 RIA receiver out of any arsenal, but its possible it was installed at Augusta.

OK, great, thank you! The stock has no marks on the nose. The only stamps I can make out other than the AAP are what looks like a faint "F" to the left of the AAP, a number "4" in front of the magazine floorplate, a "36" on the bottom of the toe of the stock behind the rear sling mount (rack number?), and the stamps on the wrist by the stock repair (a circle "P", and number "7", and something that's been obliterated by the screw). ETA: Missed what looks like an "O" stamp in the cutoff recess.

Could that stock repair have happened at Augusta Arsenal? The Arsenal stock repairs I see are so much cleaner, I immediately assume that's a home job, but the repair is old and I see mentions of brass screws being used by armorers...here's a picture of the split from the side.



So leave it be, or is it a candidate for a talented gunsmith to do a cleaner repair?

Again, my knowledge on the subject is no deeper than a few hours of reading online resources and forum posts. My hopeful theory was based on this:

1. I understand the serial number is in the range of RIA receivers that were shipped to Springfield and completed as rifles in 1928ish.

2. Those rifles would be completed with 1927-dated SA barrels - check.

3. The punch prick in the ordnance bomb on the barrel indicated a barrel that had been proof-tested as part of an assembled rifle.

I've never fired this rifle as I wasn't sure about the stock. Doing a safe clean-out and I'm trying to decide whether to hold on to it, correct some parts, shoot it, get another 1903 as a shooter, push it down the road if it's just a gun with a couple desirable parts...