Assistance Confirming Suspected 1905M Factory Sporter Requested

[Ax.303]

Bunch of employees becoming jobless wouldn’t encourage lunchbox specials, would it? That would explain unusual, ‘unapproved’ configurations as well. They’ve been building them for years, so why not build what they wanted on the way out the door? Just a hunch.

There probably was a few go out the back door towards the end.

Thing is, I was able to check under the buttplates of all I mentioned, except the two M-10 .280s

They all had proper serial numbers stamped in both the steel and the wood. This indicates to me that they went out the front door. Most likely with serial numbers on their barrels originally.

I`d be inclined to think that most of the odd configurations, were more likely rifles put together as prototypes or to float ideas.

[flying pig]

There probably was a few go out the back door towards the end.

Thing is, I was able to check under the buttplates of all I mentioned, except the two M-10 .280s

They all had proper serial numbers stamped in both the steel and the wood. This indicates to me that they went out the front door. Most likely with serial numbers on their barrels originally.

I`d be inclined to think that most of the odd configurations, were more likely rifles put together as prototypes or to float ideas.

I’ll have a look under those plates here in the next couple days. I’m pretty sure both rifles were bare under them though. I’ve been wrong before, a few times in this thread already in fact. Ha ha.