Remington 03-A3

[sectionseven]

Here is another of my grandfather's guns that I inherited. Also in pretty good shape, though it needs a good cleaning.

[watersports500]

Nice rifle, I have 1 just like it takes like a mule though. I hope you hold on to it and and it down do your kids someday.

[bruceflinch]

Wow! Nice.

[Madpyro]

SWEET!

[Wicked Pete]

Are you lucky, or what?

[Mustang]

Wow...nice gun.

[smle-man]

[QUOTE=sectionseven;8570136]Here is another of my grandfather's guns that I inherited. Also in pretty good shape, though it needs a good cleaning.

You are the Jedi master of understatement.

It looks to be from an arsenal rebuild because the bands and the like look parkerized rather than blued; if they are actually blued then it is as it was built. Either way it is a very, very nice example of the 03A3. Congratulations on the instant gun collection. They are all valuable both sentimentally and dollar-wise.

[sectionseven]

[QUOTE=smle-man;8570814]

Here is another of my grandfather's guns that I inherited. Also in pretty good shape, though it needs a good cleaning.

You are the Jedi master of understatement.

It looks to be from an arsenal rebuild because the bands and the like look parkerized rather than blued; if they are actually blued then it is as it was built. Either way it is a very, very nice example of the 03A3. Congratulations on the instant gun collection. They are all valuable both sentimentally and dollar-wise.

Thanks. It's intense to see these guns sitting there, including the 1947 Marlin Golden 39A that was the first gun I ever shot (it still works flawlessly). There are 6 guns in total that I chose not to give away. My grandfather was 95 when he died recently. He's the one who taught me to shoot when I was a kid when I used to go stay up at his farm in the Pocono mountains of PA. Those are some of my most vivid memories from that era.

He was a lifelong hunter (i've never hunted) and used to have bears and mountain lions on his property all the time.

[sectionseven]

[QUOTE=smle-man;8570814]

Here is another of my grandfather's guns that I inherited. Also in pretty good shape, though it needs a good cleaning.

You are the Jedi master of understatement.

It looks to be from an arsenal rebuild because the bands and the like look parkerized rather than blued; if they are actually blued then it is as it was built. Either way it is a very, very nice example of the 03A3. Congratulations on the instant gun collection. They are all valuable both sentimentally and dollar-wise.

Regarding the bluing - the bands definitely look different that the receiver. The receiver is almost a dark greenish grey, and the bands match all the rest of the hardware (meaning black/blue).

[mosinnagantm9130]

That is a very nice collectable 03A3!

[deguello]

Wow, beautiful green parkerizing. And very nice crossed cannons on the stock!!

[Anubis Laughed]

Very nice A3, definately a keeper.

[smle-man]

[QUOTE=sectionseven;8571427]

Regarding the bluing - the bands definitely look different that the receiver. The receiver is almost a dark greenish grey, and the bands match all the rest of the hardware (meaning black/blue).

The bands, trigger guard, buttplate,boly body and rear sight should be blued; the barrel is usually a gray-black and the back half of the bolt and receiver a green/gray. The stock will have a RA, Ordnance stamp, and inspector stamp on left side. If there is another stamp such as BA, OG, RRA, etc then at least the stock went through a rebuild. If all the metal bits or some of them are parkerized then it went through the rebuild. In some cases essentially new rifles were run through the rebuild process, taken apart, refinished, reassembled with mixed parts and put back in storage.

Your rifle looks really nice. Many new or new rebuilds were sold via the NRA in the 50s and 60s.

[SKSer45]

wow very nice! that should be in a glass for viewing lol. May that rifle be passed down to generations in your family!

[SixOnTheFloor]

Nice 03-A3. The serial number puts the manufactuer date around the second week of Septermer 1943.