RIA question

[Rick the Librarian]

Forgive me if you stated this elsewhere, but is there an NRA stamp on the forward tang of the trigger guard? The serial number is in the range for those NRA Sales rifles I have observed in the past. Thanks for the pictures!

[p246]

No this one is not marked with the N.R.A. Mark

[Kragrifle]

Would appreciate help with a Rock Island 1903 I have been looking at for years. As I remember it is in the high 200000 range, barrel date around 1918. This rifle has two recoil lugs, an Eagle head cartouche and a very unusual, but matching handguard with a different shape than I have ever seen on a 1903 rifle. Could this be a real Rock Island produced rifle ? Sorry I don't have photos, but as yet I do not own the rifle but have seen it a large gun show for a long time!

[p246]

Would appreciate help with a Rock Island 1903 I have been looking at for years. As I remember it is in the high 200000 range, barrel date around 1918. This rifle has two recoil lugs, an Eagle head cartouche and a very unusual, but matching handguard with a different shape than I have ever seen on a 1903 rifle. Could this be a real Rock Island produced rifle ? Sorry I don't have photos, but as yet I do not own the rifle but have seen it a large gun show for a long time!

Without pics it's hard to hazard a guess. Does it have Rock Island stamped above the serial number. when Rock Island fired back up in late 1916 they started stamping end of stock with RI, so if a RI stock this should be there.

[Kragrifle]

I don't own the rifle but have seen it multiple times over the last 10 years at the same show! Always a bad sign. I now understand the rifle came out of the Benicia arsenal years ago.

[Kaliman]

I don't own the rifle but have seen it multiple times over the last 10 years at the same show! Always a bad sign. I now understand the rifle came out of the Benicia arsenal years ago.

Kind of like those listings you see on gunbroker for months on end. Sometimes you can message the owner with an offer though and you can get a good deal out of their frustration.

[John Beard]

Rock Island did not mark their stocks with an Eagle Head cartouche.

J.B.

[Kragrifle]

Thanks John

[Fred]

Would appreciate help with a Rock Island 1903 I have been looking at for years. As I remember it is in the high 200000 range, barrel date around 1918. This rifle has two recoil lugs, an Eagle head cartouche and a very unusual, but matching handguard with a different shape than I have ever seen on a 1903 rifle. Could this be a real Rock Island produced rifle ? Sorry I don't have photos, but as yet I do not own the rifle but have seen it a large gun show for a long time!

Yep, I think the only 1903 Stocks with the Eagle head stamped on the left side are from Springfield Armory during 1918.