Will_F
(.224 member)
21/01/15 02:18 PM
1903 GK

I have read where some MS rifles have a spare front sight storage located under the grip cap. Is this common to all MS rifles are there exceptions to this? I have ordered the thin screwdrivers necessary to work on this rifle and wonder what I will find when I remove the cap on a 1920 Model 03.

Thanks

Will_F


Will_F
(.224 member)
27/01/15 12:40 PM
Re: 1903 GK

Found out! Wood!,,,

Iowa_303s
(.400 member)
27/01/15 12:58 PM
Re: 1903 GK

And now we all know!

Kiwi_bloke
(.333 member)
27/01/15 06:29 PM
Re: 1903 GK

The model known as the "English take-down model" has a grip-cap that, when you press a small button at the back and to one side of it, will let the cap swivel 90 degrees and then drop down. This reveals a small cavity that is big enough for a spare front sight. If the sight is a little higher/lower than the one fitted, which was the case in my M1910, then you have some options with sight height for different loads. My one was wrapped in paper to stop it rattling, I suppose. It's something I've continued to do.

In those days, 1903-1945 of thereabouts, I'd think that anything could be had custom-made, so I'm sure this feature appeared on other models too on special order. But if you don't see that small button at the back of the grip-cap, then I wouldn't think there'd be anything underneath. Mind you, I've heard of people putting their old-style firearms permits and suchlike paperwork under the butt-plate of various other rifles, but never found one.

My German friend, who deals in classic firearms, thought that GK would stand for gerade Kolben, meaning straight stock. So the stock would not be Monte-Carlo style. I would have thought they were all GK in 1920.



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