Ok This is what I purchased, Tell me what you think

[1mark]

Took as chance with an online auction. I ended up with the following:
Springfield M1903 s/n 1,265,xxx
Barrel dated, 9-30 and is star gauged.
No rear sight base
NS Bolt polished, no s/n on bolt
Lyman rear peep sight long slide
Lyman front globe sight
Gas escape hole on the left of the receiver
C stock NRA sporter type
Drilled and taped receiver and barrel, approximately 7+ inches apart

I will try and get pictures up tomorrow.

[musketshooter]

People will be a lot more helpful if you post the entire serial number.

[joem]

I think you should send it to me for a evaluation.

[cplnorton]

Post the full serial and we will check the SRS for you for a hit. There are a lot of DCM sales in this range in the SRS.

[1mark]

It is not in SRS I checked.

[Rick the Librarian]

Pictures would help ...

[Major Tom]

I noticed your signature line of a Mark Twain quote. There is alot of truth in that. That is Hillary's modus operandae.

[cplnorton]

With no SRS hit, it's sort of interesting it's drilled and tapped, and then has the hatcher hole. As Rick said get us a lot of pics.

[Marine A5 Sniper Rifle]

It is not in SRS I checked.

There are more lists than SRS. There are people on this forum that have been collecting serial numbers for years and years. The only person that loses by someone not posting a complete serial number is the owner. I don't have much interest in match rifles, but I have multiple searchable databases that include pages of match rifle SN's I found in the Quantico archives (Marine team rifles) while researching other Marine scoped rifles - not one of them appears in the SRS database. Just so you know, SRS isn't the only horse on the trail by a long shot. SRS contains about 380 or so SN's for scoped 1903's, whereas my current scoped '03 database contains over 700. I have over 4000 SN's for USMC 1903's (non-scoped rifles). Although I do not publish the databases, I will tell anyone if their rifle is contained within.

jt

[Johnny P]

Maybe it's going to be multiple choice.

[Marine A5 Sniper Rifle]

[1mark]

Ok you make me get pictures on Christmas eve, holding up the festivities. But here they are.

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[louis]

Well you've got to excuse everyone we are like children waiting to open a Christmas gift!!

[Cosine26]

There are two things about the stock that causes me to wonder if it is truly a NRA sporting rifle stock. It has no cross recoil bolts and it does not have a recess in the left hand of the stock to allow for the cutoff to be put fully into the OFF position. I wonder if the stock may be a M1922 .22 stock? I have been told that all Sporters had the Lyman 48S sight, while this one has the 48C sight. Obviously the NRA rifle, as issued, did not have the rubber recoil pad.
Just a couple of questions for the experts.
Just wondering.

[Marine A5 Sniper Rifle]

It lands in the middle of a whole bunch of USMC match rifles. Barrel has been replaced, stock probably not original, but one nice looking rifle. I'll wager it has a very nice trigger pull and shoots like a dream. Marine paper punchers were given a lot of leeway with their team rifles in those days.

I'll let the real experts chime in.

jt