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hillbillybear
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An Interesting Old Rifle
#244021 - 19/03/14 10:27 AM

Dad just came into an interesting old rifle.

Its a 1903 Springfield built at Springfield Armory. The serial number is 538XXX which should put the production date in 1913 or one of the "low number" rifles.

This rifle has been reblued, the bolt jeweled, restocked, drilled and tapped, and looks to be rebarreled (22 inch sporter contour barrel with a witness mark scribed at about the 2 O'clock position that lines up perfectly with the U.S. stamp on the receiver ring).

The stock has a 1950's-1960's style rollover cheek piece and a Herter's recoil pad and white line spacer.

Here are some quick pictures:

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hillbillybear
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Re: An Interesting Old Rifle [Re: hillbillybear]
#244022 - 19/03/14 10:29 AM

I did a quick test fire after supper and the old rifle functioned fine with my rather pedestrian .30/06 target load of 49.0 grains of VVN140 and the 155 AMax @2775-2800 fps.

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Ruger_450
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Re: An Interesting Old Rifle [Re: hillbillybear]
#244071 - 21/03/14 05:07 AM

Nice old gal. Don't worry about the low number myth as there has never been an incident of a low number gun having proper headspace and modern ammo blowing up. Back when I was heavily into collecting R.F. Sedgley Springfields, I had a 270 WCF Mannlicher style carbine that had been hunted hard and had 2+ inches of throat erosion. The 270 has never been a pooper and this carbine carried the typical stippled front receiver ring (all markings gone). Almost surely a low # action as Sedgley bought them by the truck full. If the customer supplied the action, the arsenal markings were left in place. I have sold most of mine but still have a few deluxe models: the short action 22 Hornet, the 22-06, 6.5x55 and 400 Whelen.

SA Hornet, 6.5x55 top (NM action), 22-06 bottom, 400 Whelen, WW I low number IDed to unit & soldier bottom

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hillbillybear
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Re: An Interesting Old Rifle [Re: Ruger_450]
#244091 - 21/03/14 08:53 AM

Those are some great looking rifles and a really nice elk.

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