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I worked for Euroarms of America back in the 1970's. While (obviously) we had no military contracts, I gained an entirely different perspective as to WHY things happen that creates minor differences...

You will get a lot less fouling using FFFg.

Weigh your Minie Balls and separate them into "Lots" of Plus or Minus 1/2 Grains. The "Light" Minie Balls get sent back to the manufacturer because they...

When I worked for Euroarms of America in the 1970's, Euroarms in Brescia, Italy was getting the walnut for their gunstocks from Yugoslavia.

Regarding staining gunstocks....I found to get the best...

A cousin of mine was drafted into the army in World War II and sent to Fort Stewart, Georgia for training.

He told me that they were issued Model of 1917 Enfields (in 1943) and one or two blew up...

Yep, I think you will be much happier with a Minelli stock. Years ago I had an '03 Springfield with a World War II replacement Scant Grip stock and I didn't like it at all.

Read [and check out the pictures] of the 1913 Reunion of Confederate and Yankee Veterans at Gettysburg on the 50th Anniversary of the battle:
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Generally, in Drill Rifles, the Magazine Cut Off was welded so the bolt could not be removed...hence look for discoloring on the receiver around the magazine Cut Off...that would be evidence the...

Well, I fired a lot of rounds of cheap World War II surplus .30-06 G.I. ammo in a Low Number Rock Island '03 a friend of mine gave me in the 1960's.

Didn't even know anything bout how dangerous...

Black powder shooters have long debated whether the American Springfield or the British Enfield was the "Most Accurate" Civil War Rifle or Rifle-Musket. The answer is neither!!!!

Actually, the...

The Percussion Sharps were manufactured in .54 Caliber. When Springfield Armory was converting them to the 50-70 Centerfire caliber after the war, some of the Sharps with pitted bores had the rifling...

I can recommend the book: "Civil War Guns" by the late William B. Edwards. The book is highly readable and if you have an interest in Civil War guns, it is hard to put down the book.
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PhillipM is absolutely correct when it comes to U.S. Government contract carbine production. None were produced after World war II ended. However, several commercial firms did (and still do)...

I posted this elsewhere on this forum, but I am posting this again here to let everyone know about this Sergeant Alvin York website. It makes an interesting read.

Geeze....they have used a metal...

Check out this link:

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/WW2_American_Army_Advantages_Over_Nazi_German_Army

Well, I visited the Frankfort Arsenal back in the 1970's when the government closed it down. I was surprised to find barrels full of:

Aluminum .45 Auto cartridge cases with a "FA 41" headstamp....

REAL Black Powder has a LOWER ignition temperature than the REPLICA Black Powders, but conversely, REAL Black Powder apparently BURNS HOTTER than the
REPLICA Black Powders. A friend of mine made...

The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia did extensive accuracy tests on all the Minie Rifles in use in that army in 1862. What they found was that all rifle and rifle=muskets were roughly equally...

Well, regarding the "politics" in 1917....President Wilson had won re-election in 1916 with the slogan: "He Kept Us Out Of the European War."

Beginning in 1914 (shortly after the outbreak of World...

Well, lets think this thing through-

IF the "Low Number Springfield Rifle Blow Up Scandal" was a plot by either the Ordnance Department OR the U.S. Army to insure more funding from the Congress...

Dear Rick:

If he did mention his unit, I do not recall it. He told me he was stationed on Corregidor and had not been on Battan at all. Even though he brought up the subject of his capture by the...

Back in the early 1980's I had a friend who lived and worked up in Atlanta by the name of Tom Blum. Tom was divorced and living in an apartment. On that particular day he brought his room mate down...

Lodgewood Manufacturing is probably your best bet for an original stock.Give them a call:

http://www.lodgewood.com/

If you want a replica stock....then get in touch with Dunlap Woodcrafters;
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Or, do the G.I. '03A3 have to be modified in some way to fit?

Inquiring Minds Want To Know!

THANKS

Here is a period document..the Handbook of the British School of Musketry at Hythe:

http://archive.org/stream/handbookforhyie00buskgoog#page/n6/mode/2up

Here is an article by the late Tony...

DANG!!!

That rifle looks like something a Pimp would carry in the gun rack of his White Cadillac Pimp-Mobile!!!

Does it come with a Gold Plated Bayonet for those "Drive-By Bayonettings?"
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