1903 NRA Sporter

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  • Rick the Librarian
    Super Moderator
    • Aug 2009
    • 6700

    #16
    Absolutely beautiful ...thanks for posting!
    "We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
    --C.S. Lewis

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    • Fred
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 4977

      #17
      Wow! Super rifles! Thanks!!

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      • MoMallard
        Member
        • Sep 2009
        • 43

        #18
        A forum member PMd me with some concerns over the stock. When I bought it I had suspicions about the lack of a proof P but figured the price was right regardless. I knew the metal was genuine. He pointed out that there is a routed/inletted area behind the lug bed that is indicative of an M2 stock for .22 magazine relief. M2 stocks had no cross bolts. After looking at it carefully, you can see that it is indeed a M2 stock that someone very accurately added bolts to. They got the bolt placement perfect, based on pictorial reviews. However, look at the peening in the center of the cross bolts where someone drove them home, and some scratches and marring on the nut side where they used a screw driver to turn it. Swing and a foul tip if not a miss. Anybody got a sporter stock for sale?:>)

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        • Herschel
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2009
          • 973

          #19
          The stock on your sporter is a 1922 stock, also known as NRA stock. The M2 stock has a butt to which a 1903 issue type stock will fit and it has grasping grooves in the fore end. You have a fine rifle, regardless of the replacement stock.

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          • Kragrifle
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 1161

            #20
            On the subject of the magazine relief cut, I seem to remember reading somewhere that both 22 and 30 cal stocks will have this cut. The 30 cal rifles have the cross bolts added.

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