Straight handled bolt - Remington or Rock Island?

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  • butlersrangers
    Senior Member
    • May 2012
    • 533
    #1

    Straight handled bolt - Remington or Rock Island?

    When I purchased this loose 1903 Springfield Bolt, it came with a WW2 Remington shroud, safety, and striker-assembly attached.

    Is it a Remington bolt or (as I now suspect) a 'refurbished' Rock Island bolt?

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    • PhillipM
      Very Senior Member - OFC
      • Aug 2009
      • 5937
      #2
      I think there is a lightly struck number to the right of the R , making it a Rock Island.

      http://www.vishooter.net/slc16_2008.html
      Phillip McGregor (OFC)
      "I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur

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        • chuckindenver
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2009
          • 3005
          #3
          RIA, that someone drill the gas hole larger on and parkerized
          if it aint broke...fix it till it finally is.

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            • butlersrangers
              Senior Member
              • May 2012
              • 533
              #4
              Thank you gentlemen for your replies. Is it likely this bolt would be a double heat-treat?

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                • John Beard
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2009
                  • 2275
                  #5
                  The bolt appears to be a WWI Rock Island bolt that exhibits a WWII USMC gas escape hole enlargement. Only the Rock Island R 5 bolts were double heat treated and the spurious marking beside the "R" does not appear to be a "5".

                  J.B.

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                    • butlersrangers
                      Senior Member
                      • May 2012
                      • 533
                      #6
                      Thank you Chuck and John for your insights.

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