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Rick, one of my USMC snipers also has a completely unmarked stock (except for the drawing number in front of the rear swivel), if it wasn't for the "O" marking in the magazine cutoff. And just recently bought an exactly identical rifle with nearly pristine stock which has the same "O" in the cutoff and the D1536-4 at the rear sling swivel. Both have no other markings, like the P proof.
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Waiting for more pics.....This thread should be stickied.
Siefly
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A few more of my M1903s
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Well, since we're opening this thread again, here's another of mine - a Remington M1903, one of the sol called "Red Star rifles. 3,024,801 with a 1-42 RA barrel and RLB-marked stock. The handguard was replaced at some point, but it was done in the UK. One of 200 imported from the UK by Will Levin.
"We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
--C.S. Lewis
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Great pictures of some beautiful rifles. Thank You.
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Yes, Thank you Rick!
What is the story again on the Red Star rifles? Were 1917s red-banded as well?
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Will Levin was an Air Force officer stationed in England after WWII. He found that through his connections he could actually import as many Remington M1903s as he wanted from those that had been used by the British in the UK. It took several years of paperwork, but about 1955, he imported about 200 of the rifles. He had intended to give or sell them to friends and shooters. About 72 were sold to the Red Star gun shop in California in the late 1980s. It was through this shop that these rifles became known and so this group of rifles has retained the name "Red Star" M1903s, even though most were not handled through the gunshop.
I have a data base of about 2/3 of the serial numbers. They run from about 3,004,000 to 3,136,000, although the vast majority were in the 3,020,000-3,055,000 range, along with a solitary mixmaster LN Springfield.
"We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
--C.S. Lewis
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Another one of mine. Will be shooting it in the Vintage Sniper matches.
Very high ser.#1531276 Springfield.
Dan
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