1903 Springfield Picture Thread

[Gutshot John]

I've loved these rifles for a long time.

I took my dad's old sporter (was a converted military) and reconverted it back to resemble a WWII sniper rifle.

I liked the no-frills, weathered look of the existing B&L optic (My dad bought it new the year I was born) so I kept it. I also really liked the chromed bolt.

I hunted with it a few times, but now it mostly sits in my safe.

[lowprone]

Beautiful rifle and 30-06 is serious cartridge, I would put milled front bands on it
as befits such a fine piece of wood and steel.

[Gutshot John]

Like so?

http://cgi.ebay.com/U-S-SPRINGFIELD-...QQcmdZViewItem

[shooter521]

A good friend of mine recently bought a Smith-Corona 1903-A3. Beautiful gun, and easily the most accurate of his WWII rifles (though the Enfield bolt cycles faster and recoil is a bit easier on the shoulder). Nice to see a sporter restored at least partially to its as-issued glory.

Here's a pic from the impromptu "military heritage shoot" that we had on Memorial Day; the -03 is second from the left:

[threefeathers]

I love mine and now that I'm not so worried about losing high cap rights I might order another one of these in a 03A3 config.

[Perryguy]

Got mine from the CMP, gotta love Cosmoline!

[WRMorrison]

Here's a teaser of mine (just picked up the barreled-receiver from the 'smiths last night):





More info on my project here:
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=12725

-WRM

[casio02478]

Beautiful, just beautiful guys.

[Gutshot John]

Here's a teaser of mine (just picked up the barreled-receiver from the 'smiths last night):





More info on my project here:
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=12725

-WRM

That my friend is the cat's ass.

PLEASE let us know when you get it out to the range.

[sl4mdaddy]

That's a damned beautiful rifle you have there, Gutshot. I restored (sorta) an Enfield years ago and had to eventually sell it, which was painful. After recently acquiring my Garand my war rifle bug has kicked back in.