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Cool! Is it a low or high SN?
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"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
-Nietzsche
"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
-George S. Patton
You should be alright. Low number for Springfield rifles is < 800,000 and for Rock Island rifles is < about 275,000. It is dangerous to fire low number 1903s because of a flaw in the heat treatment of the receivers. For high number rifles this was corrected and you should be good.
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His is a Remington made 1903A3 built starting only in WWII. The 1903A3 is a cost reduced rifle using components made from sheet metal stampings. The brittle receiver thing is not relevant to 19O3A3 Springfields. The 1903 Springfield rifle (WWI vintage) is an entirely different model of rifle. They are the ones that suffered from improper heat treating that could result in them blowing apart from being brittle.
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
-Nietzsche
"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
-George S. Patton
All RA Remington Arms barrels are 2 groove. 2 lands, 2 grooves, very simple made to speed up manufacturing process. They shoot just as well as other higher count grooved barrels. I owned a 1903A4 from a CMP drawing win. It had a 2 groove barrel on it. The A4 was the purpose built Sniper Rifle version of the A3.
Actually I believe/remember the improperly-heated receiver issue only involved some of the earliest 03s manufactured at the Rock Island Arsenal shortly after the US military adopted that rifle to replace the Krag. Production switched to Springfield Arsenal in MA around 1910 and there were no issues with the rifle after that. The whole blowing-up problem was overblown I gathered from reading pretty extensively...a very few soldiers were injured during range training with no reported deaths and one doughboy in particular losing an eye.
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Rock Islands and Springfield arsenal receivers of early numbers were both effected by the heat treat issue. They were eyeballing the color for heat treat. What Ltorlo64 postedis pretty spot on. Improved heat treat using actually gauges / therocouple read outs started after these serial number ranges.you should be alright. Low number for Springfield rifles is < 800,000 and for Rock Island rifles is < about 275,000.
The point I was making is that the 1903A3 is not a 1903, totally different beast made decades later than the 03's. There never were any brittle 03A3 receiver rifles.
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