"low numbered" M1903's and German 8mm ammo

[fguffey]

No idea why people make stuff up when they post. One would think it'd be easier to just check.

Perhaps Farr, like most, arrived without a rifle as brand new service rifles were being provided? Rifles which were intentionally made for the matches and received considerable attention to accuracy?





New rifles. Made from the $100,000 appropriated for the matches that year.

Farr used a rifle that had been repaired. Again, he picked a rifle from a rack. If life was fair everyone would have been been required to pick a rifle from a rack. If all rifles were equal it would not have been necessary for him to road test his first pick. And then there was that part that should have embarrassed the organizers. He should have been given the rifle he shot; he should have been able to leave with the rifle, instead a collection was taken to purchase the rifle and then it was shipped to him. I thought that was a disgrace, that was no way to treat an old shooter from Washington.

F. Guffey

[fguffey]

No idea why people make stuff up when they post. One would think it'd be easier to just check.

Perhaps Farr, like most, arrived without a rifle as brand new service rifles were being provided? Rifles which were intentionally made for the matches and received considerable attention to accuracy?

When picking a rack rifle there was a remote chance a shooter could have picked a Springfield 03 made in 1911, not all 03s made in 1911 were select but if Springfield's number one objective was accuracy all Springfield's would have been accurate.

F. Guffey

[DougBowser]

I have an old green and red box of commercial Remington 8mm Mauser ammunition that will chamber in a 1903. In a discussion of the failures reported by Hatcher I dug out the box, and while it doesn't chamber freely, only slight pressure on the bolt handle is needed.

The old Remington ammo used .321" bullets. This was done so the ammo would be safer in the .318" bores of the 1888 Commission Rifles. This may be why the ammo you have chambered in a 1903.