WARNING UP COMING RANT:
It really riles me up when someone like this can take a historic weapon like this and turn it into, I don't even know what to call it - I am at a loss for words!
END OF RANT
Someone (on another forum) said he may have used this:
DennisC, I would suggest you remove the link to JCWhitney, or I suggest you road test the link to 'repair your computer because it is slow', then let us know how that worked out.
I do not know who owns the rifle, I do not know who did the work, the rifle did not belong to me, therefore it is none of my business, the owner did not ask me what I thought he should/could do.
Let us pretend the rifle was not period correct, let us add the owner had nothing to do with the configuration. Additionally not one part matched, let us call it a Johnny Cash assembled rifle, all the parts are 03, or O3A3, or 03A1 with a couple of Corona, Rock Island and Remington parts with rebuild stamps from 3 arsenals. And then I ask 'what and or where is the pride in owning a Johnny Cash type assembled rifle?
If the rifle belongs to me I personally do not care what you think about what I do with history. If you have 10 pounds of history I have 10,000 lbs. of history.
http://www.gunauction.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=7309186
I bid on and won the rifle in the auction. When the auction hit the forums the responses were predictable, with one exception, responders were trying to make themselves look good at the expense of the builder. Not one of the responders had a clue as to what they critiquing, there was a lot of laughing, giggling and tee-'heeing'. Two of the responders are monitors now. All I ask was to hold down responses to prevent the rifle from becoming famous, something like an Internet sustentation, did they? No, that would require class and character, I won the bid for the sum of the parts.
I could not see how someone could build something that ugly without knowing what they were doing. Sure enough I took the rifle to the range with 12 different loads of 10 rounds each, I spent most of the day firing the 120 rounds, the groups moved around slightly, some groups shared the same hole and no group was larger than a quarter. I applied the leaver policy, I left-er the way I found-er, the scope, rings and mount cost more than the riifle.
I was at a gun show in Mesquite, Tx. A man carrying a Santa Fe Remington 03 before A3 30/06 rifle was being told he had a pos rifle and no one was going to offer him anything for it, unless etc.. I asked him what he wanted for the rifle, he then offered to thrown in two boxes of new Remington ammo for the same price. To get the money I had to go to the bank, when I pulled into the bank he left me, he thought driving through the drive through would get us arrested. It all worked out, the lane we were in had an ATM.
I went to the range with the rifle and free ammo, I used three rounds of the Remington ammo in the Remington rifle and managed to get all three rounds to touch with open sights. $150.00 plus two boxes of ammo with that kind of accuracy? I needed the receiver, I have an 03A4 barrel that has been chambered to 308 Norma Magnum, I have always wanted a rifle with air brakes, the 03A4 came with one. It is not something I have to have, all of the parts from the 03A4 were almost given to me because the receiver was the focus of the purchase, not the trigger guard, stock and barrel.
F. Guffey
