1903A3 Springield stock

[Ontario Hunter]

Is that a Herters "world famous Belgian" stock? Looks identical to the one Dad put on my Springfield in 1962. Horse wreck broke it in two, 1981.

 

[jruby]

I don't know but the barrel is marked Barnes and Johnston. I don't know who made it but it feeds the cartridges really really well and seems to be quite accurate. The action is marked 1951.

 

[TMac]

I’d give Mark Brown a call/email at Brown Precision and see if he makes a stock for the 03A3.

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[Ontario Hunter]

I forgot we had discussed your gun in another thread. That really is a fine rifle. Not sure I would want to use it as a beater for bad weather. Might be a collectable. Perhaps consider rebarelling to 404J? Did you confirm the bore diameter?

Curious what is COL for 404 Express?

 

[jruby]

It's likely to be used only at the range. I agree it is nice rifle and deserves to be treated well. I don't plan to do or change a thing on it. It shoots a .411 bullet which is hard to find..I havie been using barnes ttsx bullets but those are for a 405 wincjester which shoots a little slower.
I neck up 338 win mag brass to .411 and fire a full charge of IMR4320. To me in North America this is as big as I think I will ever need.

Just curious where do you live in zbontario. I grew up in Michigan . My dad love to go to Cabads to fish. We fished the Goliath river. Also a lot of lakes that did not have names but simply numbers. We caught coolers of Northern pike that were very dark in color. The fish often did not need the lure to be in the water. Dangle it a couple inches out of the water and they would go for it. Good memories
Also spent time around Nipigon and Wawa

James


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[86thecat]

Found a Bell and Carlson synthetic for my m98 bad weather rifle in the barrel of take off stocks at a small local gunshop for the princely sum of ten bucks. Couple small marks and has the old style sling swivel rods bonded into the stock, but was a good find since I didn't need anything fancy. Has an open trigger guard that works with my big hand and trigger finger placement.
Keep an eye open, sometimes luck is on your side.

PS, Sealed an old wood stock for a sported 1903 years ago when by Bellingham. Stripped wood, used nitric acid and heat gun process to stain then bedded with epoxy and sealed entire stock with thin marine epoxy, being careful not to fill checkering. Turned out pretty well and used some very fine steel wool to lightly dull the gloss. Had planned on using a laminated wood stock but had heard that some of the less expensive ones had been known to delaminate in wet areas. Could have epoxy sealed a laminated stock but liked the fit of the walnut sporter that was on it, so just adapted it to the weather. You can laminate a wooden boat with System Three (which I used) or other marine epoxy so it should keep a wood stock from being wrecked by the weather.

 

[86thecat]

Just need to be sure any stain doesn't keep epoxy from soaking into wood, thats why I used the nitric acid / heat process. Sealed first, then bedded with thickened eopxy, just in case stock moved a little when sealed.
Too late to edit above.