1903 Arms Chest Inventory List?

[browningautorifle]

What this illustrates for us is that the rifles didn't seem to be shipped in crates by sequential number. They're all over the map, so when someone asks about an SRS check and suggests that this number was issued to a unit so "Mine likely was too"...it's not very likely at all. The serial numbers aren't too close. Not sequential.

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[rcathey]

...so when someone asks about an SRS check and suggests that this number was issued to a unit so "Mine likely was too"...it's not very likely at all.

That's a great point, Jim. We often say, "if SRS does list some for one unit, yours likely wasn't issued there if it's not listed."
This definitely adds that second layer of, "a close number doesn't mean anything."

I feel honored, truly, to be able to buy and share interesting things like this.

[browningautorifle]

yours likely wasn't issued there if it's not listed

It would be you and for instance "Butlersrangers" that showed me that. This is excellent proof, I'm thinking these serials are of brand new rifles by the dates of shipment and then a second set of dates later showing transfer? (1909, 1918)...