-
Advisory Panel
You are correct. Smith-Corona stocks are cut differently from Remington stocks.
You take good photos. Identification is unmistakable.
J.B.
-
-
10-19-2010 09:31 PM
# ADS
Friends and Sponsors
-
Contributing Member
Originally Posted by
TDH
Yeah kinda like lend/lease. Right now there are hundreds of thousands of
M1
's and M1'Carbines sitting in Korea that a certain alledged president will not allow back in the country. Rumor has it they are considered to be a threat to national security if they found the wrong hands.
If your SC shoots as well as mine you will be a happy man.
In all fairness to the alledged president, I read that the reason they aren't being imported is because the South Koreans are trying to sell them to the importers which they should not be doing because they are US government property. There is no market for them outside the US in any great quantities so they have to sell them here. No surplus prior US owned rifles can be imported without the nation doing the selling showing ownership of the rifles. South Korea can't do this because they don't own them, the US does.
I found this last evening while researching the "lend/lease" aspect of military small arms.
Last edited by Aragorn243; 10-20-2010 at 08:22 AM.
-
-
FREE MEMBER
NO Posting or PM's Allowed
Wouldn't the original "Blue Sky" imports of the 1980's have been government property also?
-
Contributing Member
From the information I found last evening, these imports were indeed US government property. It was these imports which resulted in the law preventing them from being imported from South Korea today. Each country must provide proof that they own the rifles.
They went on to say that Columbia sold some Garands to US importers and these were legal because they had bought them outright from the US and had the paperwork to prove it.
-
-
Deceased
During 1967-68, as the Koreans were being re-equipped with M16/ M60s, the Koreans proposed to give to the ARVNs their M1/2 Carbines , M1 Rifles, BARs & Browning MGs. (and I believe had already started to do so) when the US told the Koreans “NO, junk them or send them back to Korea”. So the US had the final say in the disposition of at least the Small Arms Korea took to Viet Nam, whether all Korean SAs I do not know.
As the results of this, I obtained a ¼ ton trailer full of stripped M1&2 Carbines receivers , selected the best and gave the rest back.
And a few months later I was involved in a thrown together team to rebuild ARVN Small Arms, because all of a sudden the ARVNs were way short. And we got most of our spare parts from the Koreans..
45B20
-
Legacy Member
What I read is that they are US property and are suppose to be shipped back. The state department passed the buck to the BATFE who passed it to Homeland security who handed it back to State who will probably pass it to whoever and keep it up until they rust away on the dock in Korea. State doesn't want them because they pose a threat to society seeing as how they use "high capacity clips."
-
-
Contributing Member
Interestingly, the NRA has published an article concerning these Korean rifles. Seems it wasn't far off the mark that the current government is stopping their importation based upon them being dangerous in the wrong hands. Article did not mention whether the importation was supposed to be the lawful way of returning them to the Government, or the unlawful way of South Korea selling them to importers so there may be an element of truth to both aspects of this.
-
-
-
-
Contributing Member
Harlan,
I've been told about the front sight cover by others on another thread. I think I'm one of the weird ones that likes the sight picture it provides. I will try it both ways at the range and see which works best for me.
Getting to be cold weather here and I don't shoot so well in cold weather unless there is a deer at the other end of the bullets trajectory so I don't know when I'll get a chance to shoot this. I am pretty anxious to try it though. I've been buying a lot of surplus rifles recently and I think this one has already become my favorite. It just feels right. My K98 is a close second though.
-
-
FREE MEMBER
NO Posting or PM's Allowed
There aren't many 03s in this area and haven't laid eyed on one at a gun show in years. I was fortunate to have picked up my Springfields (9), years ago. I have a new Smith-Crona that some stupid SOB cut the stock off around the barrel band and did the finish work with a jack knife. I managed to pick up a regular stock off eBay a few years ago and am still looking for a an original S-C stock to totally restore it. I would also like to hear a range report on your 03.
PM
