Poyers' '03 Springfield Book

[Calif-Steve]

The China story is interesting. I think Springfield picked through their inventory and selected every low number '03 in-house. Also, Mk1's went to China. I happened to go through a pile of Mausers and '03's in Vermont 20 years ago. All freshly out of China. Piles of low number and piles of NO NUMBER '03's.. The Red Guards had neatly removed all English alphabet from the rifles. I honestly don't think Springfield even assembled very many '03's as they would have had a large inventory on hand to ship. By the time these reached the USA in the mid-1980's they were beat, to say the least.