Complete and original 1903’s are hard to come by and command a premium these days. There are literally thousands of armory rebuilds and bubbaised 1903's out there to play with. Last month at a local gunshow I bought a 1915 1903 for $200 that was not in the best of shape with a cut down stock, D&T for a 48, got it home and ran the number and it’s a NRA sales rifle. For some reason there seem to be a lot of nice sporter stocks running around so maybe people are trying to convert them back to military. It’s kind of funny in a way because both the Wundhammer and the Adolph stocks that I restored would have had an original NRA sales rifle that was only the barreled action and metal parts needed for a sporter and was never a complete rifle in the first place.
If you are unsure please run everything by someone with knowledge of what it might have been or is.
IMO the prizes are rifles from makers who did not mark their work. Wundhammer made a couple hundred sporters and after collecting info on him for twenty years I know the whereabouts of about fifteen.
