What do I have here, 1903

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I bought this for $500 because I can't control myself. When I bought it there was a leather wrap around the barrel where the sight collar would have been. It went all the way to the forearm tip and the barrel channel has been dug out to let it fit. I tore the leather off and I see white metal where the collar should have been. In the SRS list it is surrounded by NM rifles, there aren't anything but NM's in that serial range. It almost looks like one of the 1921 "Free" rifles. The barrel is star gauged, it gauges 1, and it has the Lyman 48S rear sight but I don't know how it came to be. The stock has had a plastic pistol grip cap added and it doesn't look like any of the NM, heavy barreled target or style t target stocks but it sure looks military, especially the shape of the comb. Is this just somebodies put together copy of a target rifle? I can't figure it out. I took some lacquer thinner to the butt end of the stock and melted off some of the spooge and oiled it. It looks like a nice stock except for the barrel channel excavation.
























It's odd that there are no inspector stamps, usualy there is a bunch.

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