My new 104 year old rifle

[Mohawk]

Nice job. I love the old Springfield script. Has anyone ever heard of a 1903 low number blowing apart? Just wondering, as I have shot 2 with low numbers with no problems....

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[daveboy]

Nice job. I love the old Springfield script. Has anyone ever heard of a 1903 low number blowing apart? Just wondering, as I have shot 2 with low numbers with no problems....

Yes, Mohawk there is a history of early (below S/N 800,000) catastrophic receiver failures. Do a search on this forum, or just google it and you will have more reading material and opinions that you dreamed possible. Like you,( and many thousands of GIs I might add) I have fired low-number 03s with no problem. Having informed myself of the "possible" danger, howerver, I will not fire them with full-power loads.

daveboy

[Rob]

Great job on the 03.
As far as shooting it,I wouldn't but to each his own