Current Value '03 Springfield??
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Pics would help.
There is a HUGE field of 1903 collecting and one man's "very good" is another man's "poor". "Decent bore" is not a description. Is it pitted? Is the rifling badly worn? What does it gauge? How is the crown? Is there any rust on the rifle? What serial number range? What manufacturer? What year is the barrel dated to?
Now we need to see what kind of stock it has (there are three main variants of stock and many sub-variants of each type). Are the cartouches intact? Does it have the right stock and handguard for year of manufacture? Does it have the rifle bottom metal for manufacturer and year (milled or stamped).
Is it milled for a Pedersen device?
In short - you have not provided anywhere near enough info. With what you have provided, it could be anywhere from $350 to $2000+
There is a HUGE field of 1903 collecting and one man's "very good" is another man's "poor". "Decent bore" is not a description. Is it pitted? Is the rifling badly worn? What does it gauge? How is the crown? Is there any rust on the rifle? What serial number range? What manufacturer? What year is the barrel dated to?
Now we need to see what kind of stock it has (there are three main variants of stock and many sub-variants of each type). Are the cartouches intact? Does it have the right stock and handguard for year of manufacture? Does it have the rifle bottom metal for manufacturer and year (milled or stamped).
Is it milled for a Pedersen device?
In short - you have not provided anywhere near enough info. With what you have provided, it could be anywhere from $350 to $2000+
Hope pics help
Barrel - SA 5-42 (clean rifling, no counter-bore, no pits, rust or bulges, shiny appearance to the eye and accurate) crown is consistent with WW2 Springfield manufacture.
Stock - Scant type good condition (no cartouches present)
Serial Number - Early but past the 800,000 mark, no Pedersen cutout.
And a few pictures:
Barrel - SA 5-42 (clean rifling, no counter-bore, no pits, rust or bulges, shiny appearance to the eye and accurate) crown is consistent with WW2 Springfield manufacture.
Stock - Scant type good condition (no cartouches present)
Serial Number - Early but past the 800,000 mark, no Pedersen cutout.
And a few pictures:
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There a guy on the EE trying to trade one early O3 for a broomhandle.........
This is a WW2 era rebuild of an earlier rifle using a replacement Springfield Armory barrel and a "scant grip" stock. Altho the M1903 was supplanted by the M1 Garand as the standard WW2 infantry rifle, M1903s were maintained in service thru WW2.
Replacement M1903 barrels were produced during WW2 by Springfield Armory into the latter half of 1944, Johnson Automatics, Remington, Sedgley (some marked U.S.M.C for separate USMC procurement) into early 1945, and High Standard into late 1944. I have owned M1903s fitted with all of these barrels, except Johnson Automatics, and they all shot well.
Replacement stocks which were installed during arsenal rebuilding were stamped with a "P" proofmark and the cartouche of the rebuild facility. Stocks which were replaced at unit/post/base level did not have these marks applied.
A Springfield Armory receiver numbered above 800,000 is classed as a "high number" receiver and is safe to shoot as a result of improved heat treatment at time of manufacture. "Low numbered" Springfield Armory receivers were taken out of service by US Army Ordnance policy following WW1 due to a number of documented incidents of receiver failure. That said, some low numbered receivers were kept in use during WW2, especially by the USMC which maintained separate supply channels. The consensus among collectors today is to not shoot a low numbered M1903.
Replacement M1903 barrels were produced during WW2 by Springfield Armory into the latter half of 1944, Johnson Automatics, Remington, Sedgley (some marked U.S.M.C for separate USMC procurement) into early 1945, and High Standard into late 1944. I have owned M1903s fitted with all of these barrels, except Johnson Automatics, and they all shot well.
Replacement stocks which were installed during arsenal rebuilding were stamped with a "P" proofmark and the cartouche of the rebuild facility. Stocks which were replaced at unit/post/base level did not have these marks applied.
A Springfield Armory receiver numbered above 800,000 is classed as a "high number" receiver and is safe to shoot as a result of improved heat treatment at time of manufacture. "Low numbered" Springfield Armory receivers were taken out of service by US Army Ordnance policy following WW1 due to a number of documented incidents of receiver failure. That said, some low numbered receivers were kept in use during WW2, especially by the USMC which maintained separate supply channels. The consensus among collectors today is to not shoot a low numbered M1903.
