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Both sides of barrel/receiver, Wrong stamp or barrel swap?20200801_205527.jpg
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If you look closely the type style (font) is different. More likely to be a replacement barrel that has a similar number than a misstamp.
 
It is a 1943 replacement barrel on a 1916 rifle. What are the odds that the last three numbers would accidentally match?
 
The trigger guard has a NRF stamp so I guess that would not be correct for that rifle either. Drilled and tapped, non matching bolt, might be a tanker project.
 
I think in 1943 the boys and girls were working REALLY hard and fast in the FTR department.

They had ended a war in Ethiopia, were finishing a war in North Africa and getting into another in Italy PLUS trying to get enough equipment ready for D-Day.

I think they might be allowed the occasional slip of a punch. The important thing is that it passed Proof!

I have a similar relic in the Sock Closet: 1897 action, rebuilt in 1908, with a 1943 barrel. Things were DESPERATE!
 
Would the barrel have been numbered after it was installed on this receiver or is it a used barrel from another rifle? Would the rifle have been FTR'd in order to get a new barrel? The barrel has a bad spot where the cleaning brush slips through really easy. The bigger spot is about 1 1/2 inches long and about an inch back from muzzle, muzzle is tight. No sign of any bulge on the outside of barrel.
 
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gerard488 said:
Would the barrel have been numbered after it was installed on this receiver or is it a used barrel from another rifle? Would the rifle have been FTR'd in order to get a new barrel? The barrel has a bad spot where the cleaning brush slips through really easy. The bigger spot is about 1 1/2 inches long and about an inch back from muzzle, muzzle is tight. No sign of any bulge on the outside of barrel.
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A new barrel would have been numbered when installed.
If a used barrel were installed, the original serial number would have been lined out, and the number of the body applied.
A new barrel could have been installed without a full FTR being done.
A loose patch isn't encouraging, but shoot the rifle before giving up on it.
 
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