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Yeah, had I seen it, it would be on its way to my house. Clean it up and install a new solid red thin pad and bingo!- a nifty sporter with pretensions of being by a "name" pre-war builder if not actually in fact.

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I feel kind of dumb about thinking it was a rework of an NRA sporter stock, that being said, did anyone take a good look at the 3rd picture?
It looks like the stock was originally made for a different action with the receiver sight a bit forward of the current one.

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I hate to get roasted but I can feel the flame coming. I never got Springfields. I even had one once. It was a MK II that looked like it just came from the arsenal. Cost me $100. I don't think I even shot it before a collector friend saw it and wanted it and gave me my $100. Give me an original, the Mauser 98.

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Originally Posted by HalfaDouble
I hate to get roasted but I can feel the flame coming. I never got Springfields. I even had one once. It was a MK II that looked like it just came from the arsenal. Cost me $100. I don't think I even shot it before a collector friend saw it and wanted it and gave me my $100. Give me an original, the Mauser 98.

I can't speak for you, but I think I understand. I grew up in Wisconsin, but spent 5 years in Britain, some of the people that I knew in Britain would go on about how cricket was superior to baseball and how rugby was superior to American football, I would nod and be diplomatic and say, "you know, if I had grown up watching and playing this or that, I would feel the same way." In my formative years, I read about custom 1903's and wanted someday to own one. Now I have a bunch and will always want more.
I actually have more Mausers than 03''s. To inlet a 1903 action into a stock requires a lot more work than a Mauser 98, to me that is part of the charm, though I can certainly understand someone feeling the opposite way. Whenever I get a 1903, the first thing that I do is to take it apart and look at the inletting. I think if circumstances ould have been different, I might be voicing the same opinions as you, that being said, I am glad that the circumstances have been different. I love my 1903's

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Originally Posted by PhysDoc
did anyone take a good look at the 3rd picture?
It looks like the stock was originally made for a different action with the receiver sight a bit forward of the current one.

Pic#4 if you enlarge it (click on the pic) gives a pretty good look at it.
What I would say is a horn inlay in the wood that outlines the existing recv'r sight w/ about an even 1/8" perhaps extra outside of the actual sight .
It makes a nice arc coming off the straight vertical front side of the inlay to then form another short portion which shadows the elevation bar of the sight.
The rear edge is most all hidden by the bolt handle and shadow. But my guess is that it matches in shape to what you can see.

I think it's purpose done extra detail inlay. Not something done to cover a mistake or opening left from a secondary use of the stock.
If the rear sight is not perfectly centered on the horn inlay, perhaps the rear sight was not the one on the rifle when the inlay was done when making the stock.

Horn matrl matches the forend tip nicely and doesn't jump out at you like a 1970's style long aspect white diamond inlay on the side of the stock.
Maybe the orig grip cap to the rifle was that matrl as well. The ivory grip cap was an added feature of a secondary owner wanting to add his/her own 'name' to it with an initial inlay,,again just thinking out loud on the key board.

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I'm thinking the likely stockmaker is Barney Worthen. The checkering pattern is one clue, and the grip cap, with missing inlay, is just like the one Mchael Petrov writes about only different material. Whoever got this rifle has a nice sample of classic American work.


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Kutter, I think you're right about the inlay. I've seen that detail once before on a Krag stocked by Wundhammer.


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Bill,
I don't think it's Barney Worthen because the stock is too thick thru the wrist. Michael told me that he could tell a Worthen stock in the dark just by feeling how thin it was thru the wrist. Worthen even rounded the TG tangs to make the stock thin.

Dan

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