Springfield 1903A3

Sgt York

Gary Cooper as Sgt York always wet his front sight when taking a shot. Never missed. Have you tried spitting on your blade sight? Also he had a technique making a turkey gobble that brought the Krauts heads up out of the trenches to see what the sound was then in conjuction with the spit on the front sight he was able to knock their Kraut heads off.

Well maybe spitting won't work, but if you are taking more front sight than you think you are the rifle would shoot high. Can you for sure see the top of the front sight at the range? I say this because I just had a problem shooting high with my peep sight on a M94 Swedish Mauser 6.5x55. I have an adjustable Lyman rear peep sight. Very thin front blade with brass like bead on the top. I was shooting high at a hundred with my rear sight all the way down. Put a dab of green sight paint on the front bead that I could definetely see and now have the rifle zeroed dead center at a six inch bull 100 yards. What a difference being able to see made. Just my two cents worth

I do not remember what the width of the front sight blade on an 03 looks like but with the M1 Garand we always blackened our front sight blade with soot making the sight sillolette stand out starkly in the peep rear sight. The Garand's front sight blade is a lot wider than that on my Swede 6.5 circa 1907
 
FWIW....my C -stocked 03A3 shoots 4 inches high at 100 yds with the sight at "battle zero",all the way down as far as it will go.I was told that this a "belt buckle zero" to give chest area hits.My rifle shoots nice 1-2 inch groups if I do my part.
 
"I went out today with my 1943 Remington 1903A3. I was shooting some 147 gr. handloads. I had the sight set as low as it would go (200 yds.). I was at 100 yards and all of my shots kept hitting about a 12 inches high."

Is this weapon new to you?
Have you shot it previously with the expected results?
What is different now from when it was shooting properly?
Have you tried other loads (factory)?

I wouldn't start making drastic changes to a classic 03 too fast. If it has been chopped and ground down out in the yard and is now only a shooter, making drastic changes wouldn't make any difference. No matter, 03s are great shooters.

03A3s are double heat treated nickel steel, only the WWI 03s were single heat treat, Hatcher gives the serial number SA 800,000 as the change over, 285,507 for Rock Island from single heat treated. And then the nickel steel change at 1,275,767 in 1923 or so. 03A3s serials are from 3,348,086 to 5,784,000, with the LC Smith-Corona and Remingtons all falling in this range. So your 03A3 is far from being a weak receiver.

OSOK
 
I can't see why this is so hard to understand. The majority of unmodified 03a3 rifles shoot high at closer ranges. In fact many old military bolt guns do that.

It is no mystery here. No strange events. Nothing for us to fail to understand.

If you have one that shoots point of aim at 100 it is a fluke or someone had installed a taller front sight.

Also York used the 1917 Enfield in real life.
 
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