03A3 help please.......

[SigfanUSAF]

I've got a CMP demilled A3 I'm finally getting around to "de-de-milling".
I've got the barrel off, the cutt-off removed, and most of the weld material out of there.
Does anyone have a good picture of the magazine cutt-off area on an 03A3 that I can use as a pattern to remove material? Preferably with the cutt-off removed from the rifle.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[deadin]

If I were you, I would have that receiver magna-fluxed before I spent much more time, effort and money on it. A good number of the "de-milled" 03's were meant to be "drill rifles" and sometimes they used unserviceable receivers to make them up.

 

[DnPRK]

All A3s were made of good steel. The only thing that would make the rifle unserviceable is if the receiver ring is cracked or welded. A weld way back around the cutoff shouldn't matter.

Click the link. Picture #68 is a good shot of the cutoff area.
http://www.surplusrifle.com/03a3/rifledisassemble/index.asp

 

[Sunray]

Listen to deadin. Milsurp rifles were "de-milled" for a wide varienty of reasons. Being unsafe to shoot is one.
How'd you take the barrel off?

 

[Jeremy2171]

Also brand new rifles were demilled. However most of the time unserviceable weapons were destroyed and NOT used as drill rifles.

 

[glimmerman]

IF THE BARREL WAS WELDED TO THE RECIEVER DO NOT MAKE THIS INTO A SERVICABLE RIFLE!!!!!! THE WELDING ON THE RECIEVER RING HAS WEEKENED THE HEAT TREATING!!!!!!:banghead:

 

[SigfanUSAF]

IF THE BARREL WAS WELDED TO THE RECIEVER DO NOT MAKE THIS INTO A SERVICABLE RIFLE!!!!!! THE WELDING ON THE RECIEVER RING HAS WEEKENED THE HEAT TREATING!!!!!!

Re-heat treating is part of my plan for this receiver. No worries.