Good morning all,
I have a "bastardized" Sporter Remington '03-A3 that I picked up on-line as a package with another. Had no idea what this gun had on it. It's got an early ajdustable 'peep' that was meant for a .22, Lyman Commercial 48S w/flip peep, the peep was added in such a way that it modified the receiver, and has to be left this way. It currently has a monte carlo wood stock, 2 groove barrel that has been chopped to ~22" with matching front sight for the peep.
The sight was valued at $200.00, funny, but the gun was valued at $200 too. It's shoots great, (upgraded to timney trigger), totally sound gun.
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Want to try to change this to an AR'ish like gun. Collapsable stock, and rails for mounting vertical forearm grip/laser/light, scout scope, total "black Gun" but on a bolt action, without anymore milling (minimal if necessary)
Seems to me to be a "one of a kind", unless my google capapbilities are bad. Do I just need to find a creative gun smith, or do any of you know of parts and pieces or techniques that will fit the 1903 A3? I'm trying to be cheap, it's a $200 gun, you know.
The Peep sights will not be removed (maybe the fore-end), a flash guard would be cool, and the ideally the parkerized finish will be changed to black.
I've seen variants of the Moisan with these features, same with AK/SKS. How about for the the good old Springfield 1903 A3, that someone messed with in the 50's already??
Thanks, and feel free to forward to anyone... Dan
I have a "bastardized" Sporter Remington '03-A3 that I picked up on-line as a package with another. Had no idea what this gun had on it. It's got an early ajdustable 'peep' that was meant for a .22, Lyman Commercial 48S w/flip peep, the peep was added in such a way that it modified the receiver, and has to be left this way. It currently has a monte carlo wood stock, 2 groove barrel that has been chopped to ~22" with matching front sight for the peep.
The sight was valued at $200.00, funny, but the gun was valued at $200 too. It's shoots great, (upgraded to timney trigger), totally sound gun.
____
Want to try to change this to an AR'ish like gun. Collapsable stock, and rails for mounting vertical forearm grip/laser/light, scout scope, total "black Gun" but on a bolt action, without anymore milling (minimal if necessary)
Seems to me to be a "one of a kind", unless my google capapbilities are bad. Do I just need to find a creative gun smith, or do any of you know of parts and pieces or techniques that will fit the 1903 A3? I'm trying to be cheap, it's a $200 gun, you know.
The Peep sights will not be removed (maybe the fore-end), a flash guard would be cool, and the ideally the parkerized finish will be changed to black.
I've seen variants of the Moisan with these features, same with AK/SKS. How about for the the good old Springfield 1903 A3, that someone messed with in the 50's already??
Thanks, and feel free to forward to anyone... Dan
