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It’s interesting to wonder sometimes what Sears could have been if they had more aggressively pursued the outdoorsman market. The companies which dominate the space today, such as Cabelas, Gander, and Academy, have all struck major success within the past 20 years. Sears had plenty of opportunity to exploit this market, but for the past 25 years they have been screwing up at every turn. Nowadays their store is downright depressing to visit. I went there a few weeks ago to purchase a vacuum cleaner (they are the only major chain to carry bag filter vacuums) and there were literally more employees in the store than customers. If only they had continued targeting the sports and outdoors market, and not divested their financial subsidiaries, their fortunes might be much better at present.

I realize the thread is ancient but I couldn’t help but comment on Sears. To be honest, I have not set foot in a Sears in over 30 years. When I was a poor college kid right out of the service, my sister had given me a Sears gift card for Christmas which I promptly misplaced. I found it a week or so before the following Thanksgiving. When I went to use it at Sears, the sales lady told me to come back the following week as they were having a big sale.

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I showed up the following week only to be told my card was expired by a few days and was worthless. I pleaded my case to the store manager and was promptly told to p*ss off with the obligatory condescending flick of the wrist. I have since bought 100’s of thousands of dollars worth of tools, appliances, and other wares and not a single dollar of it went to Sears!

I have often wished I would have run into that same Sears manager from years back to show him and the thousands of others like him at Sears just exactly why their business is failing! Karma, baby, KARMA! That was a very well done article, and summary. I own two 1903A3s and enjoy them very much.

You did a good job on the history of the variants on the 1903 platform. Ironically, just this weekend, YouTube, for reasons known only to YouTube, featured a short video I made shooting the Garand and 1903 and it was a featured video on YouTube, attracting, so far nearly 120,000 views.

May I post some of your comments in the video description section? I’d link directly over here, but not sure how to do that in YouTube which is pretty hesitant about web address embedding. I might add an annotation to the video though pointing people here. Think I’ll do that. One more comment on 1903A3’s: During the height of WWII war production ramp-up, as an expediency measure to crank out more rifles in less time, 1903A3’s were made with two-groove barrels (as opposed to the original four grooves). I have a two-groove A3 and it shoots into an inch at 100 yards quite handily with modern sporting ammo.

The two groove barrels are favored by some cast bullet shooters over the four groove for reasons I won’t belabor here. Both the 1903/A3/A4 and Mauser 98 are worthwhile additions to anyone’s collection, and both make excellent starting points for high-end custom rifles. I have a 1943 Remington manufactured 03-A3 that I think is all original, it has a 4 groove barrel and is in excellent condition. I took it to the range once, placed 5 turkey steel silhouettes at 300 yards, hit 5 out of five and then said “no need to shoot this anymore, it’s too accurate”. My friend has a 2 groove 03-A3, his father was a gunsmith who (unfortunately by today’s standards) sporterized dozens of 03’s and a quite a few 03-A3’s, who told me that nobody wanted 2 groove guns, but in reality, they were as accurate or more so than the standard 4 groove guns. I’ve only seen about 2 or 3 over the years, but I will say that you are lucky to have one. I have two 03-A3’s.

One is a Remington and the other one is a Smith-Corona. Csi Wealth Management Essentials Pdf Editor. I regularly hunt with my 03-A3.

I shot a nilgai in Texas with the Remington. I’ve also used the 03-A3 on countless jack rabbit hunts. It’s also a great rifle for shooting coyotes. These are great guns.

The 2-stage trigger breaks cleanly and they balance nicely. I’ve read that the front sight is one of the rifle’s weaknesses. Perhaps, but I’ve never had an issue with the front sight on either 03-A3. Some say that the 2-groove barrels on most of the Remington rifles are not that accurate, but I can squeeze out a 2″ group at 100 yards with hand loaded ammunition. The P-17 Enfield is an incredibly tough and well-built battle rifle, but it is heavy and a bit on the ugly side (I have one made by Eddystone), but the 03 and the 03-A3 are truly handsome rifles.

Thanks for the great article. I aquired a Springfield 1903 “Sporter” model.30-06, (NOT SPORTERIZED), years ago, for $35.00 at a garage sale. I thought it was sporterized, but upon disassembly, I noticed the barrel band was machined and fit around the lower stock and barrel perfectly. This rifle never had handguards.

I got out some reference manuals and there was the picture of my rifle. It is VERY RARE. Only a few hundred made! Back in the 1920s, if you wanted a Hunting Rifle in.30-06, this was your ONLY choice. EVERY PART in Her is Machined STEEL and Hand Fit. The magazine floor plate underside is Jeweled.

Every part in the original Lyman sight is machined steel. The barrel has flaming bomb proof, dated 6-16. It is slicker and smoother than anything currently made. She still shoots great.

The Elderly man I bought it from, said his brother used it to shoot Grizzly Bears and camp meat in Alaska with it Durring Construction of the Alaskan Hwys, from ’20s-’50s. I believed him, as it only has 20% blue, but no pitting. It is a Great Rifle, and dont plan to part with it.

The stuff they come out with now, and for the last 30 years ago is Junk(you pick the brand). My rifle is a classic example of, “They Dont Make Things Like They Used To” Sad!!! My Dad was on the 3rd wave in the invaison on Okinawa. +30 days he found a 1903, in average condition. He kept the rifle, and later sportatized in 1950, an avid hunter he hunted on Fort Lewis and always carried the 1903.

I was 14 when I shot my first buck on Fort Lewis. I attended a local Military school for 3 years, and entered High School. That year was my first hunt in 3 years. My Dad did’t have the 1903, he was shooting a Remington semi auto carbine, he had sold the 1903 to a retired buddy. I just knew I would inherit that 1903, but it didn’t happen.In 1970 I was on active duty in the 50th state. The territorial guard/National guard was selling off 1903’s I aquired one for the price of 36.00, a lower serial number example with the Hatcher hole in the receiver.

Apdu Commands Create File. I own 3 1903’s and enjoy them very much. My son and I have inherited a Smith-Corona 03-a3 from his great grandfather. Initially, most of the info I needed to know what type of gun was obscured by the scope mount. When further inspecting, found that it is a smith-corona o3a3 that has been sporterized with a fajen stock. I own several guns and would love to take this one to the range and fire it, but am concerned about whether it is safe to fire. When operating the bolt action, it seems extremely “wiggly” when pulled back as far as it will go. Admittedly, i know little about mauser-style bolt actions and would like to know if this is fairly normal with these guns or there is cause for concern.

Have you never heard of a trapdoor Springfield? Those were the rifle between the muzzle loaders and the Krag and there were plenty of trapdoors in Cuba!

Name the court case between Mauser and the US govt Tired of looking yet? That’s because there never was one, the author just repeats wrong information. As mentioned above, the sling is attached to the stacking swivel, the proper sling swivel is missing. I guess they did that to keep the upper band from falling off since it’s retaining screw is missing.

I have an old 03-A3 Springfield, two groove that I received in 1978 with no wood or stock accessories. I promptly ordered a very plain (straight grained) blank stock from Brownell’s (I think) and went to work making a very attractive sporter. I had connections with Lassen Community College in Susanville, Calif. Since having been a student in the gunsmithing lab and was able to get the bolt “bent,” the barrell turned down smooth, the action drilled and tapped for scope base and blued to a near “Black” semi-gloss finish. All that cost me probably a thousand dollars worth of tools, but they were old tools I no longer have use for.

I fit, glassbedded, and finished the Walnut stock with twenty hand rubbed coats of “Tru Oil” which I hand rubbed with pumice and oil to bring out a really beautiful glassy smooth finish. Mounted with it’s 3-9 x 40 Nikon scope she is a pleasure to show and is on the mark at 150 yards.

I studied under Mr. John Wise in Susanville from 1965 to 1971 when I moved away. All I ever took were the machineshop classes. One hell of a lot of fun!!!

I am a country Gospel singer/songwriter, so my web page doesn’t reflect guns, however I am a huge proponent of or our 2nd amendment. I own 2 beautiful M-1 Garands, and just recently bought a 1903A3 ( which I have not had the privilege to shoot yet. The Garands are the sweetest rifles I have ever shot ( right on the money at 100 yards and probably more) from what I’ve read, it would appears I am in for an even sweeter treat with the 03 A3, can wait to fire that “Baby” “Keep your powder dry” and God Bless you and our country. Frank M Diehl. So, I’m a History Education major, and consider myself an milsurp enthusiast but by no means an expert and I would like to ask a question to people that probably know more about this rifles wonderful history than I do. I am reading a text book for the class I am helping out, and in the book there is a diagram that shows a American WWI soldiers’ equipment, and of course the rifle was the ’03.

They had a comment I have never heard before and I’m fairly certain that it is dead wrong but thought I would give this due diligence. On the rifle there is a text box and it says this word for word: “the appearance of the Springfield rifles fooled the Germans into thinking that the Americans had machine guns”. Now my assumption is whoever wrote this specific part of the book was getting the ’03 mixed up with an M1 Garand, but like I said before, just wanted to see what everyone else had to say about this. Yes I know a millennial that is into guns! Shocker right?

(No I’m not feeling the Bern by any means) Thanks! Zack; There is on way in H— anyone could mistake a 03 for a machine gun, certainly not the Germans. Your assumption can only be correct. I own 2 03-A3s, 2 M1 Garands and 2 M1 carbines, I can reload my M1 Garand in about 2.5 sec.

And that is slow, but I am 74 years old. At the beginning WW-2 most countries were using and trained on bolt action rifles and you can see why the M1 could have been mistaking for a machine gun but not the 03.

I am glad to see that you have joined us old guys in the ownership of guns. I will not hold it against you for being a millennial, you can not help when you were you born, Please don’t join the college students in a CRY IN, just joking. Young people make fun of us old ones but when we were their age we had real problems to think about. The Draft, 4 years in the army, the Cuba/USSR problem, the death of JFK, keeping a job to stay in school ( No Student Loans ), and don’t forget Vietnam.

A few things the article gets VERY wrong. The Marines did NOT “wade ashore on Wake island with 1903 rifles”. Wake Island was a refueling base for the trans Pacific “PanAm” clipper flying boats and US territory. The USMC was stationed on Wake in the summer of 1941 BEFORE the attack on Pearl Harbor to defend it in case of war. Like the rest of the US armed forces in the summer of 1941 they were armed with WW1 rifles, machineguns, and artillery. The production of the 1903 rifle DID NOT cease in 1941. It was built with an ever increasing number of stamped parts until sometime in 1942 by Remington.

When it was gradually phased out as parts on hand were used up. NO ONE has any idea when production stopped for the M1903 or what the last serial number was, or when the first 1903A3 came off the line. Springfield Armory rebuilt M-1903 rifles to “as new” specification until sometime in late 1944 or early 1945. New parts were manufactured for the M-1903 rifle by Springfield and Remington as well as Smith Caronia and hundreds of subcontractors until 1945.

M-1903 and M1903A3 rifles were still issued to some units of the Alaska National Guard, as well as some US Navy ships, as late as 1970. Making it the longest serving rifle in US military history.