M1903a4 Restoration Project

[champ0608]

One of my favorite aspects of the milsurp hobby is restoring rifles that have been messed with. As we all know, its too common to find them in badly sporterized condition, but its not all that common to find an original sniper rifle nicely reverted into standard service rifle configuration. But that's exactly what I found here. A wolf in sheep's clothing so to speak.

This is an original 03a4, made in January 1944, with what I believe to be its original 9-43 barrel. I don't know why anyone decided to turn it into a standard 1903a3, but I'm guessing the rifle has gone unnoticed as such, and I was able to buy it for $900.

I thought you'd all like to come along for the ride while I restore it back to its original Sniper configuration.

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