I am going to try and attach some photos so hopefully this work.
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I am going to try and attach some photos so hopefully this work.
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Here's an important one.
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wrench marks on the barrel are from a pumbers table.
if it aint broke...fix it till it finally is.
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Serial number, and dink before the number, Hatcher's Hole, stippled butt plate. No markings on the stock? Wrench marks...sounds like a USMC 1903 to me. Congrats!
Lancebear
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One of my Marine Brothers who smithed for the Corps in the 1950s explained the vise marks simply...."Imagine changing rifle barrels in the machine shop of a Naval vessel underway at 15 knots, in whatever sea state King Neptune's whim produces.....Combine that with the facts that neither vises, nor rifle barrels are Marine-proof"
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Phillip McGregor (OFC)
"I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur
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