![]() ![]() That is there to fit the rear handguard retainer and was only on the later '03-A3's. Parts like the bolt assembly and other small parts were typically Dulite blued rather than parked.The stock is a 03-A3, you can tell by the inletted area just at the front of the receiver. Your rifle has been rebuilt at the Benicia Arsenal in California as evidenced by the cartouche and the color of the parkerizing. ![]() I would assume that if the barrel if it is still original would have a date of somewhere between 12-41 to 2-42. Your rifle was most likely originally produced in late 1941 or very early in 1942. By the end of 1942 the rifle had changed enough to warrant a new nomenclature and was renamed the M1903-A3. One of the first things to go was the grasping groove on the stock and soon after the scallops on the rear sight base. As the changes they proposed were approved by the Ordnance Board they were incorporated into production. Soon after they started producing them, the engineers at Remington started seeing ways to simplify and speed up production. Their initial production were in all respects identical to '03's made at RI in 1919. The first rifles started rolling off the production line in late '41. ![]() Remington started making M1903's in 1941 after buying the production equipment from the US Government facility at Rock Island Arsenal.
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