SRS Check Please

[jim-d]

Can I have an SRS check on Springfield #871415 please ?
Thank you

[m1903rifle]

Can I have an SRS check on Springfield #871415 please ?
Thank you

Yours is not in the records. Here are the ones on either side.

871402 06/18/47 6TH ARMY
871433 08/03/31 USMC

[jim-d]

M1903rifle........Thank you sir for taking the time to research for me.

[clintonhater]

Yours is not in the records. Here are the ones on either side.

871402 06/18/47 6TH ARMY
871433 08/03/31 USMC

Only 31 numbers apart, but issued 16 yrs apart, with a fairly big shoot-up occurring in between; what's the best interpretation of that?

[jgaynor]

Only 31 numbers apart, but issued 16 yrs apart, with a fairly big shoot-up occurring in between; what's the best interpretation of that?

SRS Records rarely have anything to do with when, where or to whom a rifle was issued.
Rifles in the 871NNN range would have been issued during WW1.
The SRS records consist of many categories that have turned up as a result of laborious searching of various files.

[Smokeeaterpilot]

Only 31 numbers apart, but issued 16 yrs apart, with a fairly big shoot-up occurring in between; what's the best interpretation of that?

Try not to think of SNs within the SRS being in linear order when pulled from the archives. They are pulled from different record groups at different points of documented history. Although, pulled from one building, it is a massive a place it is and those two SNs aren't even remotely related to one another other than their connection being off by a few digits.

And yes, it is extremely labor intensive, spending time there... (to say the least).