Back around the late 1980's, I bought a SA 1903 rifle with a star gaged SA 7-29 barrel, the rifle came with two bolts.
One bolt had the headless cocking piece and the other a NS bolt. The stock was also a NM "C' stock but serial numbered
to a later 1.49 NM rifle. Kind of a mix-master rifle but yet interesting. In 2004. I wrote to John Beard about this rifle
and his reply was in part:
Your rifle is a 1931 NM rifle and like most NM rifles it was retained in military service and not sold.
The steel lot code C128 identifies the barrel as having been made from an unused blank that was
fabricated at Rock Island during WW1. The leftover parts and barrel blanks were all shipped to SA
in 1926. Your blank was finished at Springfield and made into a NM barrel. Your rifle has a very
unusual barrel in it.
One bolt had the headless cocking piece and the other a NS bolt. The stock was also a NM "C' stock but serial numbered
to a later 1.49 NM rifle. Kind of a mix-master rifle but yet interesting. In 2004. I wrote to John Beard about this rifle
and his reply was in part:
Your rifle is a 1931 NM rifle and like most NM rifles it was retained in military service and not sold.
The steel lot code C128 identifies the barrel as having been made from an unused blank that was
fabricated at Rock Island during WW1. The leftover parts and barrel blanks were all shipped to SA
in 1926. Your blank was finished at Springfield and made into a NM barrel. Your rifle has a very
unusual barrel in it.
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