Working on a project rifle and noticed something about the handguards on 1903 Remington rifles. Take a look at the photos and you will see three different lengths of sighting grooves. The middle complete rifle is an early Lend Lease rifle marked with English proofs and remnants of red paint around the rear band (looks to be all original, boxed RLB proofs). On either side are two Remington handguards with longer and shorter sighting grooves. The under side of these two unattached guards show the wider Remington band spring grooves.4A81B54C-8533-44B0-B1E6-8C516E06F525.jpg856F437F-910A-45B9-834F-7A2CB0051815.jpg