Quote Originally Posted by Promo View Post
The Austrian Army was supplied with 800 of those 03A4's.

I know where 40 of them are - all being demilled by removing the scopes and mounting bases and having the barrel drilled for salute shooting. Well, someday I'll buy 40 barrels, 40 scopes, 40 mounting blocks, .......
Promo, Is there any chance that you could lay your hands on a list of serial numbers of the rifles in question (either the 800 originally tranferred or the 40 scheduled to be demilled).
As i suspect you are aware only 28,365 M1903A4's were originally built. Of that we know the US Army destroyed about 500 during one session in the 1990's. I have information on about 600 that should exist somewhere; either in personal collections or museums. To find an addtion 800 or even 40 would be a major shot in the arm to the data collection effort.

PS as to the serail number ranges for A3's and A4's the best sites can be reached through the sticky section of this forum. Simply scroll up to the link labeled the Remington Society of America or alternatively to Vi Shooters Site. The data on on both sites was prepared by Bill Hansen who accounted for such details as scrap rates durong manufacture. At the end of his list on the Remington site he provides a substantial section of notes detailing his methodology.

The National Park Service Springfiled Armory Website has several major errors which at least as far as WW2 Remington production is concerned makes that site all but useless.

Regards,
Jim
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