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Old December 7, 2017, 09:00 AM   #11
Slamfire
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It may have a model 70 barrel but it's not a Winchester.
That's what I think. A picture will tell us if your rifle was converted to a different caliber with a Winchester barrel. I think the threads are different from the M70 and the M1903, so I don't know how the guy chambered the barrel without cutting off the barrel shank and re threading.

I am of the opinion that if a "gunsmith" took a factory barrel, cut the shank, reamed the chamber to depth, that barrel is dangerous. Barrel chambers are the primary pressure vessel and are sized so that the cartridge is completely contained in the widest part of the barrel. Moving the chamber forward into the thinner part of the barrel is dangerous.

Also, the serial number you posted makes this receiver a low number M1903 receiver. If you have not bought this rifle, don't buy this rifle. If you have bought this rifle, I don't recommend you shoot this rifle. I have written extensively about the risks of low number Springfields:


1903 sporter

https://thefiringline.com/forums/sho...ght=low+number

Any solution to 1903 Springfield Early Serial Number?

https://thefiringline.com/forums/sho...ght=low+number


Springfield 1903?


https://thefiringline.com/forums/sho...ght=low+number

first rifle: springfield 1903

https://thefiringline.com/forums/sho...ght=low+number

If the action looks like this, it is a M1903 action



If the action looks like this, it is a M70

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