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    SRS Check Please - M1903 SA #1,211,648

    If someone could check for me, I have a good condition '03 in a sporter stock on layaway at a local shop. Barrel date is 11-20. Thanks, CC
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    Right in a bunch of DCM Sales rifles, but no hit.

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    Just as well - it is drilled and tapped for the Redfield reciever sight that is on it, too. If it had been listed as a DCM Sales, Special Target, etc, I would have checked to see if the holes could possibly be original "as sold" and considered a full restoration. Mechanically very nice, and still a worthwhile project. Thanks, very much, for taking a look for me. CC

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    This one isn't too far away, and is a DCM Sales rifle.


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    Thanks, Johnny, that does make a guy think, doesn't it? I will have to get it home and a through inspection for other markings and clues before deciding it's "fate". Although it had been blued, all of the markings are sharp and intact, and I noticed some in the middle of the barrel that I should have written down. Is SRS, at least the DCM listings that I assume come from the original DCM records, considered 100% and accurate? If your gun isn't in there, it is Certain that the gun is just a surplus M1903 someone picked up somewhere?

    This one appears to have a nice original barrel, and if it checks out, would make a nice restoration - or maybe at least a good basis for a faux USMC M1903A1 "w/Unertel sight", a future goal of mine. I prefer the DHT actions for their strength and smoothness, and the only part I would need to find for the barrelled action would be the correctly marked rear sight barrel collar and attaching pins. (Anybody have one? I have a spare one from an early Remington M1903, but the "R" marking is obviously wrong.)

    Again, Thanks to all. CC
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    The rifle shown was a 1936 purchase from the NRA/DCM, and was a new service rifle. In 1936 you could order the S type stock, or for a dollar and change you could get a C type stock. Springfield just changed the the original S stock to the C stock for a 1903A1. The only place I am aware of mistakes being made in the DCM Sales records involves the NRA Sporter. Occasionally a correct Sporter will show up with a serial number right in the middle of a group of consecutively numbered Sporters, but will not be listed.

    Without confirmation of sale, your rifle remains a surplus Model 1903.

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    Thanks, Johnny. It seems to have been sporterized by a shop in Greely Colorado, postwar - if the marking on the recoil pad is original to the sporterization. CC

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    Quote Originally Posted by Col. Colt View Post
    Thanks, Johnny. It seems to have been sporterized by a shop in Greely Colorado, postwar - if the marking on the recoil pad is original to the sporterization. CC
    A little additional information. The brown rubber thin butt pad is marked "Sportsmans Shop
    Greeley Colorado"
    made in USAicon Pachmeyer Custom.

    Any shop that could order custom molded, trade named pads probably produced more than a few customs!
    Has anybody else got a Springfield sporter from this company? Pachmyer Would seem to indicate 19 fifties or later. CC

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