Boy-Oh-Boy Someone did a number on this 1903

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Looking at the discoloration, which is obviously too bright to be rust. Along the bolt it looks like bubba took a brass punch in an attempt to get beat the bolt back. The chunk missing from the extractor collar look like he kept wedging it in, with it slipping along the back side, until the collar bent upward enough to grab, and then snap off.

Bolt handle areal looks like a combination of pressure, and beating on it. If it were a burst load, hot gas would that didn't make it out the side would have got back into the bolt, cracking the metal around the bolt sleeve threads where the handle is, making it easy to break the handle off. The picture shows what looks like a bulge in front of where the bolt handle should be.

Just cleaning it up for parts makes it a free paper weight? Milled bottom metal goes for over 100 these days, butt plate 20-50, milled upper band $75, lower band 50...just comparing against what is selling on eBay right now.

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[browningautorifle]

Looking at the discoloration, which is obviously too bright to be rust.

You should expand the picture in a new screen then. The discoloration is only where it's bee ground down.