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Mosins & Soviet Arms / Re: Dragoons
« Last post by Phosphorus32 on Today at 06:54:06 AM »
Quote from: Greasemonkey on May 23, 2025, 09:45:08 PM
drool2

And this folks....  is a man who just fell off the wagon thumb1 I get it... it was too much temptation at once... that burning addiction. Day 0 restarts tomorrow.  rofl2

I like Dragoons.. I have a SCW and a Finn......   And they were sold for less than a normal M91/30.. doh1 yeah... Dragoons just arent as cool as the M91/30s for anyone reading this, sell'em cheap. thumb1 chuckles1

 rofl True story! I couldn’t pass these up. I mean it was an altruistic act; I was just saving them from Bubba.

I’d buy every one I could at this price. I would have loved one to have a КАЗ marking, but you can’t have it all  ;)
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Mosins & Soviet Arms / Re: Dragoons
« Last post by Greasemonkey on May 23, 2025, 09:45:08 PM »
 drool2

And this folks....  is a man who just fell off the wagon thumb1 I get it... it was too much temptation at once... that burning addiction. Day 0 restarts tomorrow.  rofl2

I like Dragoons.. I have a SCW and a Finn......   And they were sold for less than a normal M91/30.. doh1 yeah... Dragoons just arent as cool as the M91/30s for anyone reading this, sell'em cheap. thumb1 chuckles1
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Mosins & Soviet Arms / Dragoons
« Last post by Phosphorus32 on May 23, 2025, 09:11:45 PM »
A rare find in my area, a couple of desirable Mosins at a pawn shop. It’s become rare to find any desirable reasonably priced milsurps in our small local gun market.

They had three Mosins, all mislabeled as M91/38s on the rack: a typical mid-WWII Izhevsk M91/30 post-war refurb, and these two M91 Dragoons for less than the 91/30. I looked at them briefly and made an offer for the pair. Picked them up this week.

1925 Tula (bottom), 1928 Izhevsk (top)





1925 Tula

No import marking, scrubbed bolt. Interesting that it has the early pre-war refurbishment marking, Р for Ремонт: repair, on both the receiver and barrel. Also has a pre-WWII refurbishment marking for Bryansk, the boxed 40.




















1928 Izhevsk

No import marking, with the Finnish Army property marking (boxed SA: Suomi Armeija). Finn-matched bolt. Buttplate number, but not the font, matches the barrel serial number, suggesting it experienced a Soviet refurbishment before being captured by the Finns in the Winter War or Continuation War. Must have been one of the early 1960s imports from Finland.

The Finns typically lined out the arshin (28”) markings on the left side of the rsb, often cut an additional notch for 200 meters, and added 2 3 4 5-1/2 7 8-1/2 for 100s of meters on the right side of the rsb, but not on this one.





















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American Curios & Relics / Re: Remington 03-A3
« Last post by Ret-Sarge on May 22, 2025, 07:11:07 PM »
I was wondering what that code was for on the bolt handle. The bolt looks to be in the white, but all I'm finding for Remington bolts online are blued ones. So would it have a in the white or blued bolt. I got a replacement rear sight ramp/base on order as this one has been shaved/contoured. See picture below.

Good ole HazMat stuff. Stupid as it sounds we had to have a MSDS in our HazMat binder for emergency drinking water packed in survival kits.

A lot of bases are super fund clean up sites. I know Tyndall Elementary School was found to have a "Sliver of lead contamination along a fence line." according to the base. But a new school is being built on another location.



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American Curios & Relics / Re: Remington 03-A3
« Last post by Phosphorus32 on May 22, 2025, 02:27:04 PM »
Found the bolt steel lot code info on the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20211201001158/http://www.vishooter.net/slc13_2008.html

Your Springfield Armory Model 1903 bolt, steel lot code: HO16, was made in 1942.




I was in AL/EQC (Armstrong Laboratory, Environics Directorate).
File under more than you probably want to know  :)): I discovered a pair of enzymes found in an anaerobic bacterial community that researchers Gossett and Zinder at Cornell University developed that could dechlorinate non-flammable chlorinated solvents, namely tetrachloroethene (aka: perchloroethylene, perc, PCE) and trichloroethylene (aka: trichlor, TCE), to harmless ethene. Being on the flight line, you were probably familiar with non-flammable solvents that succeeded these but there is a huge legacy ground water contamination at bases all over the US and the world. Great solvents for being non-flammable, highly volatile (evaporated quickly without leaving a residue). Unfortunately, they're also mutagenic or carcinogenic and being denser than water, they were extremely difficult to get rid of once they go into the groundwater system.
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American Curios & Relics / Re: Remington 03-A3
« Last post by Ret-Sarge on May 22, 2025, 12:26:40 PM »
I was at Tyndall from Dec 92 to Jan 96, as the Assistant NCOIC of the 1st Fighter Squadron Aircrew Life Support shop. Then left Active Duty to become a Reserve Bum then an Air Reserve Technician. But still technically lived in Callaway, even though I was only home 6 days a month. So you worked at/with AFCEC and AFCESA?

So far this is what I've found.

Stock RA for Remington Arms
Front band/bayonet lug R for Remington
Stacking swivel R for Remington
Front sling swivel R for Remington
Trigger guard assembly R for Remington
Follower R for Remington
Follower spring R for Remington
Bolt sleeve R for Remington
Bolt handle/body SA for Springfield Armory
Rear sling swivel RP for Rochester Products

Don't know what else would be manufacturer marked. I'll have to pull it back out to see which parts are parked and which are blued.





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All the rest / Re: Blicero's Old Rasheed
« Last post by running-man on May 22, 2025, 10:10:40 AM »
GM mailed me this link for a review of the "Baghdad".  Thought it was a nifty little video and it fits right in with this post.  P32's posts on Gunboards about Iraqi crests on Rasheed rear safety blocks is prominently shown as well.  thumb1

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American Curios & Relics / Re: Remington 03-A3
« Last post by Phosphorus32 on May 22, 2025, 08:33:11 AM »
Congratulations! Great stock markings and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. I really like the 03-A3. A great piece of WWII history and a very good practical shooter with the rear peep sight. The Model 1903 is an elegant rifle with a sight system designed for highly accurate and precise target shooting. The 03-A3 design changes to reduce costs and speed production also encompassed that change in philosophy toward practical combat shooting in WWII.

Finding a correct one is very rare, though a “corrected” one is more common. Definitely need to disassemble it and examine and/or photograph all of the parts and their finish. There used to be an online resource for bolt handle lot numbers, but I haven’t looked in quite a while.

I have the three manufacturers of Model 1903s (the SA is a Mark 1, no Pedersen device, of course) and the two of 03-A3s, as well as an 03-A4. Called it good when I checked the last one off the list. Like you, my first was the Remington 03-A3 and was the closest to being original and correct, but it wasn’t.


I worked as a civilian GS-12 term at Tyndall AFB from September 1993 to 1997, my first postdoctoral fellowship. I was over on the non-flight-line side of 98 at the lab on 139 Barnes Dr. I wasn’t into guns then and had zero extra income anyway  :)) so didn’t know anything about the local gun shows or shops.
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American Curios & Relics / Re: Remington 03-A3
« Last post by RoscoeTurner on May 19, 2025, 11:37:33 PM »
I have some what lost touch with that area, I was stationed at Ft Rucker a couple time plus worked there as contractor but that was thirty years ago.  Went to some good shows in Pensacola back then.
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American Curios & Relics / Re: Remington 03-A3
« Last post by Ret-Sarge on May 19, 2025, 05:41:54 PM »
Quote from: RoscoeTurner on May 19, 2025, 05:34:36 PM
What part of the country are you located? 

In March I picked up a really nice RIA 03 at the TMCA show in Franklin, TN and this month a super nice Remington 1903 at the AMCA show in Huntsville, AL.  They are out there.

Panama City, Florida.
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