a pair of sporterized springfield 1903's

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dirtyjim

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not your ordinary bubba hack jobs.
first is a R.F. Sedgley, they were built right up to the begining of WWII. when he used low ser# receivers he would remove the military markings & serial number then re-heat treat them & stamp his own ser# on the rear tang. this one happens to be the highest known renumber & the only known example with the barrel marked SPECIAL cal 30-06. i rescued it from a pawn shop for next to nothing. some rum dum drilled & tapped the top for a scope, sedgleys are factory drilled for a G&H sidemount & the stocks are even pre cut for it, then another peice of wood is inlaid in the hid the cutout.
funny thing about it was that i won a segley sling on ebay the week before.
pic of both sides of the rifle
pic of the barrel markings

now heres a cigarette rifle built off a 1903 instead of a mauser. right after WWII the US soldiers would trade the german gunsmiths cigarettes to build them custom rifles.
it has a double set trigger, butter knife bolt handle, 2 blade express sights & a hendsoldt dialytan 4x scope in claw mounts

pic of both sides of the rifle

close up of the action & scope
 
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Those are beauties. I'm building a Remington 03-A3 sporter right now. I bought it off an online auction and am sending it all out to be polished/blued. I hate to do it to a nice original parkerized finish but there are enough sporters out there that I don't feel too bad doing it. Someone also drilled my reciever. :mad: I'll try to find a pic of it. Right now it has a beautiful checkered walnut stock and old school blued weaver K4.
 
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I have an 03-A4 (Yes, Virginia, they really do exist). Sadly, my father sporterized it in the late-60s before he knew what he had. But, I don't really care what it might have been worth, it is incredibly accurate for a two-groove barrel (hence the A4 designation), has a Timney trigger and a beautiful 3 X 9 Redfield scope made back when a Redfield scope meant something. Even more surprising than its accuracy is the fact that even with hot handloads, it has little perceived recoil.

I have probably shot this one more than any of my other rifles, save maybe the M-1 carbines.

Oh yeah, it's a Remington so there are no fears of late-production heat-treating.
 
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dirtyjim

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i picked up another 1903 dirt cheap on gunbroker. it had been drilled & tapped for a sidemount & the idiot who did it drillled all the way into the chamber so i'll have to rebarrel it. new replacement barrels run around $110, but i was thinking of having lothar-walther build me a 6.5x55 match barrel in the original military profle for it. it already has a lyman recever sight & i have a 03A3 hanguard to hide where the original rear sight was.

pt alot of 03A4's were sportered back when noboby knew they would be worth alot of money in the future & some are still being done today. i was looking at a sporterized 1903 in a black fiberglass stock at a pawnshop about a year ago & ther guy beside me sayed he just got through fixing up his dads old springfield 03A4 he got from the dcm back in the 60's. he told me he polished it up real shiney & reblued it, got rid of that mikey mouse looking 22 scope & put in in one of those nice fiberglass stocks just like the gun i was looking at had on it. he looked at me like an i was an idiot when i told him he just ruined a $3500 gun & the scope & stock that he threw away was worth more than the gun is now.
i still look at all the sporterized 03's i see because alot of the 03A4's were sporterized & i have most of the parts to restore one. it wouldn't be worth as much as an original but it would still make every one at the range drool
 
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