Thaine, yes it was an S-man and your thought about the other rifle having the correct barreled action was also correct. But I don't agree with your idea of you being cheap as you made me pay more than I wanted for the lot. I had to have the S-man to go with my other six S-men.
This rifle is different than all the others I have seen in that the tang is modified like a G&H instead of his usual shape. It must be a very late rifle as it has the short Lyman 48, most of his rifles have the pre 1920 long sights. The checkering is also different in that we thought all of the late rifles had the oak leaf carving along with the checkering. I will get some photos taken and have Fred post them.
The 22 M1922 is an M2, not an M1 and they had duplicate numbers on the different models.
The biggest problem with the S-man is that they had glass bedded the area around the front of the action thus some work will need to be done to get the metal back in the stock. The only other thing bad was they switched the sling studs to Uncle Mike type which will be easy enough to fix. At least they modified the tang of the Rem '03 to fit the wood.
Dan
