Hardcase
03-25-2013, 11:48
My wife is curator of the Eagle Historical Museum (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eagle-Historical-Museum/127174937296032?ref=ts&fref=ts) in Eagle, Idaho. The museum is creating a military history exhibit at the Eagle City Hall, focusing on World War I and World War II. One of the artifacts that she is searching for is a representative US rifle. I suggested the M1903.
Here's the rub. My M1903 is a bubba'd sporter, which I would happily loan to the exhibit, but it's not exactly representative of the rifles that our men carried in the wars. So, I'm putting it out to you folks: if anybody has a drill rifle, a parts gun, working or not, that they'd like to donate or loan to the Eagle Historical Museum or sell for a low price (the museum runs on a shoestring budget), please let me know. Even if it's a box of parts that could be assembled into a displayable representative of an M1903, that would be fabulous. Condition isn't terribly important - operability makes absolutely no difference (in fact, a non-operating rifle would make the city attorney very happy!)
In fact, if anybody has the parts to restore that bubba'd gun back to battle form, that would even work - it's a Mk.I and needs the stock metal and all of the rear sight pieces. In that case, I'll just buy a stock and donate the rifle to the museum.
Any donation, of course, is tax deductible, and, if you live in Idaho, there's even a state tax credit. Also, your generosity will be noted in the exhibit. Please feel free to reply here, PM me or email me at headamp@gmail.com.
Here's the rub. My M1903 is a bubba'd sporter, which I would happily loan to the exhibit, but it's not exactly representative of the rifles that our men carried in the wars. So, I'm putting it out to you folks: if anybody has a drill rifle, a parts gun, working or not, that they'd like to donate or loan to the Eagle Historical Museum or sell for a low price (the museum runs on a shoestring budget), please let me know. Even if it's a box of parts that could be assembled into a displayable representative of an M1903, that would be fabulous. Condition isn't terribly important - operability makes absolutely no difference (in fact, a non-operating rifle would make the city attorney very happy!)
In fact, if anybody has the parts to restore that bubba'd gun back to battle form, that would even work - it's a Mk.I and needs the stock metal and all of the rear sight pieces. In that case, I'll just buy a stock and donate the rifle to the museum.
Any donation, of course, is tax deductible, and, if you live in Idaho, there's even a state tax credit. Also, your generosity will be noted in the exhibit. Please feel free to reply here, PM me or email me at headamp@gmail.com.