Confidence

[Johnny P]

Springfield Armory must have been very confident in the quality of their barrels, to offer to star-gauge your new service rifle.

[bruce]

They were selling such rifles to a limited clientele whose concern for best possible performance would justify such expense. Of course in the interwar years, they were not exactly in a hurry to meet demanding production quotas. Sincerely. bruce.

[JimF]

Springfield Armory must have been very confident in the quality of their barrels, to offer to star-gauge your new service rifle.

There?s the one I always wanted . . . .
?U.S. caliber .30 model 1903, National Match grade; fitted with mod. 1922 pistol grip stock with military for-end . . . .(DCM) 45.50?

Who has the jouster Time Machine? . . . .I want to borrow it!

[PWC]

Closest thing to the time machine is the internet archives for Culiver's Shooting Pages listing Lanes Tips:

http://web.archive.org/web/200207050...com/lanestips/

Find what you want, copy to file and keep. Can't depend on the way back machine always being there.

[bruce]

Already a member of the Internet Archives. So ... $ sent. Currently any donation is doubled. Sincerely. bruce.

[Johnny P]

Not as much as who they were selling the rifle to, but that they had the confidence in their barrels to pull a service rifle off the rack and the barrel would pass the star gage test rather than star gauging the barrel before it was installed.