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JiminLE
03-15-2016, 09:55
Does anyone know how many rifles have the "C" prefix? I always thought less than 5000 were so marked. And yes I would love to find the Remington that matches mine. C3711425

Jim
IditarodJoe
03-15-2016, 10:10
Looks like 3600 serial numbers (C3708000 - C3711599) but probably a few less as at least 2% of all S-C receivers were scrapped prior to assembly.
JiminLE
03-15-2016, 10:31
That's what I thought also....but...if you look at m1903rifle's comment in your thread about SC rifles he shows a picture of reciever # C3713068.

Jim
rebound
03-15-2016, 12:02
That's what I thought also....but...if you look at m1903rifle's comment in your thread about SC rifles he shows a picture of reciever # C3713068.

Jim

JiminLE, what is the ship in your avatar?
IditarodJoe
03-15-2016, 12:33
Hmmm . . . I see that. Digging around in the tables at the back of Bruce Canfield's "An Illustrated Guide to the '03 Service Rifle", I found this: "Based on extant evidence of S-C overruns, as high as SN 3711893, it is estimated that approximately 4000 such S-C serial numbers were stamped, then ordered prefixed by Ordnance with a hand-stamped "C" in order to avoid duplicate serial numbers". Now m1903rifle's gun pushes that up even further to at least 5069 overrun serial numbers!

As I've noted elsewhere, each time we identify more serial numbers used by Smith Corona, it automatically pushes the estimated assembly date for any given rifle (especially those in mid- to later 1943) back to a (hypothetically) earlier date than is indicated in current serial number/production date tables.
JiminLE
03-15-2016, 02:39
Rebound,

It's the USS Gridley DLG-21...I was on her from '71 thru late '74...

Jim
Cosine26
03-15-2016, 07:36
The USS Gridley (DD380) was one third of the Seventh Fleet in the Med After the end of WWII. She was replaced by the USS Power about March 1946. The USS Gridley,USS Craven, and USS Providence (CL82) Were the Seventh Fleet in early 1946. I served on USS Providence during that period.
FWIW
JiminLE
03-16-2016, 04:13
Cosine26, I've been lucky to have served on the USS Gridley DLG-21 and also a couple of years ago got to go on a day cruise on the new USS Gridley DDG-101. Sure was strange to see female sailors on board.

Jim
1mark
03-21-2016, 05:25
Mine is not a Smith Corona but a Remington
JiminLE
03-23-2016, 12:13
Z prefix Remingtons...AND consecutive serial numbers.......NICE!! You going to build up the receiver?

Jim
1mark
03-23-2016, 05:44
Yes I will build it up. The first one 009 I purchased in the early 90's. Than when THE CMP had their scrap auction I saw the list of drill rifles and saw the 008 in the mix. I contacted the winning bidder of that lot and was able to buy the drill rifle and now I have the two. Chuck in Denver did the park job on the receiver.
JiminLE
03-25-2016, 09:39
Lucky you....right now I'm down to 2 1903's.....my SC and a Springfield that turned out to be a USMC sniper.

Jim