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Smith-Corona barrels
Hello all,
New to the 03a3's and am picking up a S-C 03a3 47526xx, made sometime in 1944 as best as I can narrow down, It is sporting a next to, if not, new RA 8-44 barrel. Rifle looks to be blued, possibly dark park, but all matching.
Questions I have:
1) Anyone have access to a monthly production of these rifles and,
2) Could this barrel be an assistance barrel to SC from RA at the end of a production run?
Reason in asking, I have found other threads here and about with SC's sporting RA barrel close to the same months of production.
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02-13-2015 01:33 AM
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SC with an RA barrel would be a replacement barrel.
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Your receiver dates to mid-1943, not 1944; the barrel is almost certainly a replacement.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell
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Sorry to say the barrel will hurt collector value. Finding the correct S-C barrel would be very difficult. This rifle is a shooter, only.
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If the rifles is blued, you may have one of the Greek M1903s - a number of them were reblued during their time with the Greeks.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell
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Thanks all, so far, I did find another sight last night showing a 9/43 build date.
I bought it for vintage match shoots, not as a collector item.
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June 1943 would be a closer build on Date
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