Things are slow here, so I thought I would start this thread in
hopes of getting some information on a possible builder of this rifle.
I got this off of gunbroker several months ago, but only picked it up from my dealer yesterday.

I will be happy to provide more pictures if asked. The rifle is a later 1903 Springfield with a serial number of 1,5xx,xxx range. It has been rebarreled and is still in 30-06, there are no markings on the barrel. The trigger guard has been reshaped. The inletting is really good, it is hard to see any gap between the wood and the metal. The screws are timed. It looks like the pad is a new replacement.

Here is a picture of the overall look of the rifle,


Here is a picture of the right side of the receiver


here is a picture of the trigger guard and grip cap



cheekpiece shape and figure in the buttstock



checkering on the bottom of the forend



left-side of pistol grip



It has a Pachmayr side swing scopemount, but is also drilled
and tapped for a Redfield-style scope mount. A sling with the appropriate swivels came with it. That is about all I can think of.

Did the gunsmith sign and date the butt under the pad?
Mike

No, there were no markings underneath the pad. In the barrel channel, in pencil, someone wrote the serial number of the action.

PhysDoc,
Can you ID the sling swivel bases? I have a ca 1912 Oberndorf Mauser that has these same bases to replace the Mauser ones (in different location).
Mike

Hi Mike

A sling with swivels came with the rifle, the swivels are
the kind used on super-grade Winchester Model 70's. I have
seen old Stoeger's or Herter's catalogs where you could buy
both the bases and sling swivels.

Fred

This is not my expertise, but isn't the tapered triggerguard ring one of R G Owen's treatments?

... Joe

Thanks Fred
Mike

DEFINITELY NOT an R.G. Owen!

Too bad Michael Petrov is no longer with us, I saw your photos and reflexively looked down to see if he'd posted yet (
http://finegunmaking.com/page33/page25/page25.html).

For what it's worth, I have a Sedgely 'style' Springfield that looks similar. The barrel has an "IJ", WWII 03 replacement barrel.

Edit - dug this out of an old thread from a few years back.


Does yours have anything stamped in the bolt track on the receiver tang (Sedgely serial numbered their's there, IIRC).

A few years ago had a conversation Melvin Johnson's son. He claimed that his pop had a shop in western CT after the war, where they made 'some' (number unknown) Sedgely style rifles.

For what it's worth, I have a Sedgely 'style' Springfield that looks similar. The barrel has an "IJ", WWII 03 replacement barrel.

Edit - dug this out of an old thread from a few years back.


Does yours have anything stamped in the bolt track on the receiver tang (Sedgely serial numbered their's there, IIRC).


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Hi Story,

can you post a link to the old thread discussing your rifle. I looked at mine, and found nothing stamped in the bolt track.

I have two other Sedgley's, a 1917 barreled action discussed in the link below

1917 Sedgley

And a 1903 discussed here

1903 Sedgley


The 1917 action has the number "459" stamped on the safety housing.
The 1903 Sedgley has no number on the bolt track. This may be because the rifle started off as a National Match and was probably sent to Sedgley to be stocked and have the scope put on.

Somewhere in this mega-thread
http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=185538&page=1

Thanks, it was a good thread and it is sad that so many
of Michael's pictures no longer come up. I took the
action out of my stock and had a good look at the barrel.
There are no markings whatsoever on it. It looks to me
that it was a military barrel that someone removed from
the action and turned down and polished. I can still see
a the remnant of a groove on the bottom of the barrel for
the original military sight.