Old school target rifle/Springfield guys, advise me

[deadcoyote]

[deadcoyote]

Here’s the ad narrative:

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

30.06; 99% blue, excellent bore, excellent stock, 24'' barrel, Manufactured in 1918. It has a 24-inch free floating barrel 1-12 twist. It is fitted with Redfield Micrometer sights with scope bases 11.5 lbs. 920@ muzzle. It has a Canjar trigger with Canjar off-hand rail. The metal finish is in excellent condition. The walnut stock has a right-hand check pad and is in excellent condition, s/n 10076xx

[splithoof]

My best semi-educated guess is that it is a rifle that at some point has been sporterized from a surplus version, which was very common some time ago. From the pics it looks nice. I have a factory rimfire version of the 1903 that was made for the military, but it is 100% stock.
Hopefully one of the Calguns surplus experts will chime in.....

[RandyD]

The 1903 was a popular rifle to convert into a match rifle, but that stopped in the late 60's, or earlier when the Winchester Model 70 was the go to action. The rifle depicted in the photos was not a factory model. Most likely someone that participated in high power had it built by someone who knew how to make a match rifle.

[ar15barrels]

https://simpsonltd.com/springfield-armory-model-1903-match-rifle-c46613/

That's not a springfield armory produced configuration.
From the rest of the pictures, that's probably a 50's rebuild of an old 1903 action.

[23's Dad]

Vintage Cool! That would be a fun to shoot an XTC match with for nostalgia. It was the Tubb gun of it's time. I have a few vintage small bore rifles of a similar era. The Canjar trigger was pretty well respected as a target trigger. Not quite a Kenyon, but way better than stock. The barrel blocks for scope will get you into an Unertl, Fecker, or Lyman Superspot eventually. From the photos, it looks like the prone hand stop is mounted backwards.

You can still find Canjar Offhand Palm Rests on ebay some times.

I hope you give it a good home!

[W.R.Buchanan]

Back in the day the NRA Sporter was the Common Target Rifle that was readily available. It was available thru the NRA for around $30.

They all came with Lyman #48 rear sights and the front sight shown usually with a clip on shroud to protect the blade.

SA also made full on Target Rifles however they weren't much different than what is shown below, maybe with scope mounting blocks like the OP's subject. The OP's gun is definitely someone's reworked Springfield Target Rifle. Heavy barrel, NewTrigger, Scope mounting blocks, and "Redfield Sights." All the actual Springfield made guns had Lyman #48's on them. The scope mounting blocks were for a Unertl Target Scope.

I have been looking for an NRA Sporter Stock for some time as I have a very nice barreled action. I also have the correct Butt Plate $200 and Fore End Band$125. Piece parts for these guns are not cheap and getting pretty rare. Tried unsuccessfully to get Boyds to make some and even offered to make the tooling they needed. They jacked me around for a year and then said not interested.

The one in the pic below is one of the nicest I have seen but the sling is ratty. It is still probably worth $2500.

I have a Real Live Springfield M2 in .22LR made in 1935 and refurbished in 1957 by the Benicia Arsenal in Northern CA.. It is 98% perfect and is worth about $2500 also. The main difference between the centerfire version and the M2.22LR is the length of the Buttplate and the M2 has Finger Grooves on the sides of the Fore End. Needless to say,,, It is very accurate !

I don't think you could go wrong for $800 on that one. There is alot of gun there!

The Source for all info on Springfield Rifles comes from Col. Brophy's book which is the definitive work on the subject.

Randy

[RNE228]

The rifle looks like it is set up for Unertl or Lyman scope judging by the mounts on the barrel.

[wolfmann]

Yep looks like a 03 made into a match rifle,not a bad choice at all,had my eye on something similar but It went poof.
Sucks when I miss out on stuff.