I've got an "'03-A3 Springfield" that's not really an '03-A3 Springfield.
When I was first getting into long range, I used one of the ton of M1917 Enfields that came in in the '90s. I eventually had the ears removed and had bases installed for Redfield International iron sights. It was a decent gun within its limitations. However, as they will do, the stock cracked at the rear of the action and I couldn't get a replacement when I needed it and didn't want to sink money into a commercial sporter stock that wouldn't have matched the barrel contours anyway. Camp Perry was looming and I had to have a replacement... CHEAP.
A friend from college and the Army agreed to send me an "'03-A3" he had and allow me to have target sights mounted. When it arrived, it immediately looked "off". There was no clip guide and the receiver opening was much too large. As it turned out, it was some sort of weird clone turned out by some company in California. For want of anything else, I tried to use it, but with the Grand Canyon of a receiver opening it was about as rigid as Cool Whip. Lacking a clip guide, you couldn't even use it as an across the course gun. When my friend learned how he'd been suckered, he didn't want it back. It's sat in various closets for the last thirty years. I've offered it to another friend who's not a serious shooter. He wondered if I'd saved the parts removed in the failed attempt to make it a target rifle. My response was "WHY???". He still irrationally insists that it's a "Springfield" when it's nothing of the sort. It's less a Springfield than a German MP3008 is a "Sten Gun". Given that he's perennially too broke to pay attention, I'm sure he'll eventually take it as-is for free. It just takes up space in my closet better used for a garbage bag of old clothes.