Pawn shop 03A4

[Pvt.Joker]

I checked with the seller, but the stock had already been sold. I may just have to get one of the Numrich C stocks and add the bolt relief to it.

[Pvt.Joker]

OK; my Lyman Alaskan and the late model 03A3/A4 Redfield scope base came in today. I still need to get some 8-40 Fillister screws for attaching it but here's how it sits on the rifle. Beats the hades out of that BSA that came with it.





It still needs a correct base, a good repro C-stock, correct bolt and butt plate... but it's getting there.

[pcaru1]

I know it's not a collector as found but the owner went to some trouble to "accurize" this rifle. Just curious if you shot it before you took it apart? I'd bet that rifle shoots like a champ even though it it's not a looker. I'd bet the guy bought it cheap and made a deer rifle out of it.

[Pvt.Joker]

You know, pcaru1, it really was pretty accurate with the barrel bedding. If it weren't for not being CMP match legal, I'd probably just leave that part of it. That might also have something to do with the barrel being different (if it's not original; the date is close but not typical) because it all adds up, along with the Timney trigger he had on it when I got it. But if I do get another stock, I might just have to hang onto this one until I see if it totally ruins the accuracy or not.

I guess part of the question becomes "Am I trying to restore it to as-issued, as rebuilt, or just wanting to make it "look" closer to correct?" I do realize that no matter what I do to it at this point, it will never be "original" again- at best, perhaps "restored". And therefore, the money value of it will not bring what an original, unmolested one goes for. But as a really nice shooter that is set up along the lines of what it would have been in Korea/early Vietnam, it would be a great piece to have to me as it would go with my others that I have put/am putting together from around the Vietnam era.



An M1D Garand and a Pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Target version in .30-06 with a Unertl scope, and I'd have a pretty good representative group.

So I guess it becomes a matter of trying to determine what best fits my needs for how to go about it. I would like to be able to shoot it in the CMP vintage sniper matches one of these days, though, so the bedded stock will probably have to go. But just from an accuracy standpoint, I bet I could work up a handload that would make this old warhorse shine...

[TDH]

That's what I thought to. vice marks