Like Fred, I spot that platinum inlaid vertical line through the rear sight aperture.....Old!
Like Fred, I spot that platinum inlaid vertical line through the rear sight aperture.....Old!
Back sometime in the early 1960's, I had a friend that bought 1903 barrels and a few 1903A3 barreled
actions from Great Lakes Naval Base, in their retail shop. I think the barrels were $3 each and the
1903A3 barreled actions were $10 each. When he moved to Fla about twenty years ago, he gave me
one of the barrels. It is a SA 1-31 and has the vise marks. He said that these barrels and barreled
actions came from the training rifles and when something broke like the stock, they sold off the metal
parts. You could always spot the navy training rifle barrels because the first inch down the bore had
light rust from marching in the rain.
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Is there a Verticle inscribed line running through your peep sight insert or slide? It looks like it
I'm unfamiliar with that design. It's Neat!
Punch,
As noted by JB, unless a direct link is found for a particular rifle, it's history can only be implied. This is a portion of a list of known USMC rifles (other than by physical appearance) with yours inserted. Although I am not a big fan of statistics due to one of my previous career paths (drilling oil, gas, and uranium wells), I would be willing to wager your rifle has marched under the G&A.
I noted the "Hotfoot" stamp. I am not familiar with that stamp at all, but Col Bull Simons ran an early CIA operation that was code named "Hotfoot" that operated in Laos in the late '50's. They were one bad ass bunch of killers. Connect that rifle to that bunch and you have a winner big time.
824513 02/27/36 USMC PORTSMOUTH NSY 824572 03/14/31 USMC 824665 10/15/37 USMC SAN DIEGO (SURVEY) 824672 10/23/30 USMC 824687 11/17/30 USMC PEARL HARBOR, PVT. GEORGE G. ROSE 824738 01/30/31 USMC HAITI 824738 03/16/31 USMC HAITI 824738 03/16/31 USMC Pvt. Thoephil J. Klosowski-1st Brigade, Port au Prince 824745 04/05/18 USMC Punch the Clown's new USMC rifle, SA 1-31 bbl, stippled buttplate, HO 16 bolt, AAD artouche, HOTFOOT G.E.K. stamped into stock, Hatcher Hole, 824865 01/30/31 USMC HAITI 825055 07/27/09 USMC SA 3-18 BBL, HH, "TENN." STAMPED ON STOCK UNDER RECEIVER 825081 03/16/31 USMC HAITI 825081 03/16/31 USMC Pvt. Roy A. Knight -1st Brigade, Port au Prince 825111 11/21/38 USMC SAN DIEGO (SURVEY) 825131 03/27/29 USMC SAN DIEGO 825386 04/14/38 USMCR (SURVEY) 825387 05/02/39 USMC SAN DIEGO 825389 04/22/37 USMC SAN DIEGO (SURVEY)
Thank you Sir and thank you for taking the time to do the research!
I have been trying to find any information I can about HOTFOOT and G.E.K. with no real progress. I looked at US ships and Greek ships with help from a couple of old Navy buddies, but we came up empty handed. I vaguely remember our discussing the G.E.K. stamp back during the height of the Greek returns, but found no evidence of Greek stamping of the returns. Any of you guys know the origin of these stamps?
Back in the day, a Hotfoot was a lit match stuck in the sole of a sleeping Marine using a wooden match.
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I just looked at the stamp again. It says G.E.K It looks like it's been there for a long time. I was thinking G.E.K was someones initials and Hotfoot a nick name?