1903 Remington/Springfield barrel found in my tool box...

[Stillwater]

While I was working as a mechanic, in 1973, a co-worker, knowing I was into guns, gave me a rifle barrel. I layed in the back of a drawer, in my rollaway, and promptly forgot about it.

Yesterday, thirty-seven years later, I finally remembered the barrel. Thinking that it was going to be a long, tubular, hunk of rust after all of this time, I went to the garage and found it. With a very few handling marks, and no dings in the Parkerizing, it is in perfect shape...!

Wonder of wonders, it is a 03 Springfield barrel, made by Remington, and marked 7-44. The bore is bright and shiney. The barrel has all of it's required proof marks. What a great find, and in great condition, after all of these years.

There isn't a sight blade installed, and it looks like a sight blade was never installed. And looking carefully at the chamber end of the barrel, I don't think this barrel has ever been installed on a rifle.

The barrel is a two groove barrel, which in the grand scheme of things, doesn't mean much of anything, good or bad.

Sometimes, good things really do happen.

Bill

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