My $299.00 Budget Rifle! The 1903a3 Is Finished
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- The 1903a3 is finally finished and I'm rather proud of my $299.00 budget rifle.
Getting the 1903a3: • Gun Show Adventure, Ti...
Bedding the action pt 1: • 1903a3 and FN Supreme ...
Bedding the action pt 2: • 1903a3 and FN M98 Bedd...
Free floating the barrel: • Free Floating 2 Barrel...
Accuracy before and after free floating: • Accuracy Before and Af... - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
You're absolutely right. I had a dear friend who unfortunately succumbed to cancer who was a wonderful stock maker. He had the metal work done because he didn't have the machines. He carved a scene of a Whitetail deer jumping over a log. I owned hat stock after he passed. It was for a 1903 Springfield with a high serial number. He was an artist. I thoroughly am a now fan of your channel. You speak my language.
I have a sporterised 7x57 Mauser with an action dating from the 1930s. It was left to me by my father in law and I would not trade it for the world. It's beautiful. I also got 0.3 inch groups from it using my homeloads. Tradition, history, family connection and accuracy. Makes it a pleasure to hunt with. Thanks for another very enjoyable video. And you've done a great job on that rifle.
I’ve got a sporterized Remington 1903-A3 that I got at 14 as my first deer rifle. Over the years, I found and added an aftermarket hinged floor plate, a Leupold 3-9x40 scope, and a model 70 type 3 position safety. It is just a classic, timeless rifle.
Yes, I like the 1903's and war tiime Mauser actions.
Tom, you have done an outstanding job on that rifle/stock. You have not destroyed the value of that rifle. In todays market, I dare say you could get a $6-700 with no optics. But, that one's a keeper for sure. Hope to see a hunting video with it this year. Again, outstanding work. Gorgeous wood.
Tom, you've done a fine rifle justice. You are totally right in that nothing has changed. We all appreciate beauty as proven by what will be paid for many of the old collectable cars. Craftsmanship has been replaced by expediency. Seemingly, what's cherished most today is speed rather than creativity. What you have to say in your posting is only overshadowed by the way you say it. I so enjoy your delivery, a treat to this old Brooklyn born bums ears. Thanks for all your work. By the way, that book you enjoyed so much is but a year older than me.
Thoroughly enjoyed this series and all the other ones as well… the guns are amazing, the hard work and dedication is apparent, but for me listening to what your stories and taking in your experience is the best part. Looking forward to many more and can’t wait to see some hunting videos coming soon!
What a great story. So much history, so much knowledge, so much commitment and effort. Now it is a priceless heirloom
That looks great, Tom. You're inspiring me to do something like that and maybe I'll build some patience. I'm looking forward to seeing more on this and the 257 Roberts.
*Tom. Well done. You made it pleasing to your eye... and you actually thought to fit it to yourself, as well. That, is inspiring.*
I am right on target with your way of thinking. I grew up in a time where these guns were staple of most hunters. I remember when men would work all summer to ready their rifles for the season and would show their work to others with pride and as a boy I would admire the hard work. Kmart and Yankee stores would sell old military rifles in barrels where you would pick out your best and get started.
Beautifully done sir… I just found you and your channel. Now I have a lot to catch up on what you’ve done. Blessings to you for sharing this passion with us. I can’t wait to see more.
Dang, Tom! That rifle turned into a rare beauty. Great job!
Excellent finish and a beautiful package, the whole thing! Thank you for posting this series.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I stumbled across your channel in an attempt to research staining and oil finishing a rifle stock. I bought a sporterised Lee Enfield mkIII chambered in .303/25 from a deceased estate several years ago. It sat in my safe relatively unused until about 2 months ago when I decided to begin building my Australian version of the reputed 1903 Springfield custom guns of years ago. My buttstock has identical pistol grip and comb additions to your Springfield. Thank you. I will now be watching all your videos on this particular rifle.
Sweet. "Own built" mausers are awesome. Great
job on your chequering. Fore-ends personally I
go for a smooth narrowing very-slightly curving slope from
the line of about an inch in front of front reciever bolt thru to the fore-end point
with the end point around 3/4 inch height and with about a 70 deg reverse
cut-back angle with the cut rounded nicely on the edges. Gives a really
nice sleek look and gives just that slightly extra "agile/flickable"
feel to the handling.. All good...
Cheers from down-under in little ole NZ
Great video. So many good points made on the loss of the appreciation of craftsmanship and patience needed when working on a project like this. Earned a subscriber.
Tom I Love what you did with this gun . It is beautiful and the accuracy you were able to get
Makes this even more special 👍
That stock is beautiful. I admire your craftsmanship. This look to me is the classic hunting rifle. You nailed it. Congratulations
Looks wonderful. I think you did a great job...a true labor of love.
That is a beautiful rifle. I enjoyed watching you do all the work despite the flaws. Hope you enjoy the rifle in the future!
Thanks Andrew, and I hope I do as well.
I cannot tell you how happy I am to see how well your dream rifle turned out to be. Well done. I offer you congratulations!
Brother you said a mouthful about having pride in craftsmanship in this age and time. Hats off.
Great video Tom, I always enjoy watching your videos. It helps me relax and de stress, keep up the good work and hello from Australia !!!
I've been away awhile and haven't seen the work leading up to now. But great video, and very inspiring since I've never sporterized a rifle nor even owned one. But I'd sure like to do my own even more now! Beautiful rifle congratulations and thanks for sharing your passion for fine rifles!
Beatiful rifle. Great job Tom.
You did an excellent job on that stock. It looks great, it functions as it should and the improved bedding has paid off in superb accuracy. Well done!
Thanks!
Nice job! You should be proud of your rifle and enjoy it.
Really enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I have really enjoyed this series. Thanks for sharing your journey with the beautiful little rifle. I care about accuracy but count me among the like the good looking rifle crowd. I know the synthetics have many advantages but there’s just something very pleasing about a pretty piece of wood.
Thanks for the sharing ,it a beautiful rifle.
Congratulations, Tom!! Over the last year I have watched all of the videos on the 1903 Springfield. Glad to see your work of art come alive. It's beautiful. If you can't recognize a labor of love you're not a true gun nutt!!
Thanks Smokey!
That's beautiful! Great job.
Always enjoy your videos. That is a very nice rifle.
Great job Tom!
Now that was a great video because that is a great rifle. It very much reminds me of the stuff I saw growing up. Back when a file and rasp was what you needed to make a quality firearm. Before the era of five axis CNC machines where you just load it up and press a button. Back before plastic stocks. Im old, I spend a lot of time watching TH-cam at home, and its getting harder and harder to find something worth watching. Seems like these days all I can find is 6.5, or some new caliber mounted on a metal and plastic monstrosity stock. Your channel takes me back to the days I miss so very much, and your dedication to craftmanship and perfection show in the rifles you work on....I very much enjoy your channel and the rifles you have on it...another great video and another great rifle. Thanks and God Bless
Just watch this again
God bless you, Tom.
Beautiful job- most impressive. Way beyond what I'd ever take on. The rifles I have are some old wood Savage rifles and one Remington rifle which is the nicest looking wood and finish. They all shoot from 0.5 to 1.5 MOA depending on ammo. Perfect for sporting use and what I value and enjoy using. Enjoy seeing you have similar tastes as I do in rifles, right down to the Redfield Revolution scopes, which I also love.
Beautifully done
I have really enjoyed watching your progress on this 03A3. I am taking on a similar project with 1944 Smith Corona 03A3 sporterized I picked up for 399. I love the feel and handling of an 03 but I do not want another 30-06 so I am going to have a 280 AI tube installed. Seeing how well yours turned out tells me I for sure need to see this project through. Excellent job on that nice rifle.
Thanks for the reminder of how good we have it .
Beautiful rifle. Great job
I'm impressed. Nothing like blued and wood. The love is in the work.
Beautiful rifle ! The Springfield 1903-A3 was my first hunting rifle . I had the bolt cut and dropped to accommodate a scope and that was it. The Springfield 03-A3 is my favorite of all ! I just seen one for sale and I believe I'll take a look at it !
Beautiful rifle, great job.
Really well done in your presentation. Looks a lot like a pair my father made for my brother and myself. 65 years ago. It’s a shooter’s dream.
What a beautiful tool. Makes me miss my father. Thank you for the reminder of where we come from, and god willing where we will go. Gorgeous rifle sir.
And thank you Michael.
Love the content. I have a sporterized 1903 with 2 groove rifling. My father was on a rifle team before I was born. He passed at a very young age and left it along with other fine rifles to me. Your video has inspired me to get this fine piece of history out into the field. Bless you sir...
I'm glad to hear that Ronald. These rifles are as fine as any ever made and it's good to hear you'll be taking your father's, and now yours, out into the field where it belongs.
Tom, 49 years ago I like you read about rifle building and did one myself. It was a 308 Norma Magnum on a 98 .Mauser action that I slightly modified all mounted on a Fagan double A stock glass bedded and free floated . Took it to Wyoming harvested a Antelope also a Pa. White Tail Deer. My own reloaded ammunition. Neighbors 308 Norma Magnum broke so I sold him mine. Lots of work all done by hand, just like you.
Good job, Tom. Looks great!
Thanks!
Turned out Beautiful!!!
Beautiful rifle , you did a great job
Early in this video you mentioned that we are still talking about calibers like the 6.5s 7mms and 30 cals. That hit close to home for me. Most of the firearms I own are in calibers that most people would consider old or even obsolete. Currently I am fixing up a few old guns from the 50s and 60s. I just fixed up a Rem 11-48 that didn't work. I can't wait to take it pheasant hunting in a few weeks. I also recently purchased a Ruger flattop 3 screw 44 mag which is the best feeling revolver I have ever shot.
I picked up a Rem 03-A3 sporteried. Barrel was 24" 2 groove made in Aug. 1944. It is set up with peep sights and with 150 fmjs it will shoot 1" groups all day long.
19gr of Trail Boss is a gem of a load to shoot.
Great video. Thanks much
Enjoyed your rifle build! Looks great! I have a lot of black rifles. Building a nice collection of furniture rifles now. I have always admired rifles with nice walnut. Just freshened up an old mossberg 46b using polyacrilic. Also just refinished my hawken with tung oil. Both turned out great. You got a new subscriber!
Sir you did a fabulous job . It is beautiful you should be proud.
Beautiful work sir
beautiful and very good job !
Really enjoyed this video. I can appreciate that craftsmanship. It's an absolutely beautiful rifle. Thank you for sharing this. God bless!
And thank you for your comment!
I'm working on a 1964 Winchester model 70 in 243 I picked up at cabelas in Kansas. It's came with a timney trigger, open sights and I really like it so far .
THAT is a beautiful example of traditional craftsmanship. I think there is a shift occurring that is bringing back the appreciation of/for handcrafted firearms.
My most beloved rifle (next to my first gun - Steven's model 24E Deluxe / .22-.410 O/U given to me by my dad in 1972 when I was 10..., I'm now 60) is a .25-.284 wildcat that I purchased in 1994 built on a Remington 722 action mated to a fiddleback stock with birds-eye maple forend/pistol grip. "The Wild One" is engraved in the floorplate of the fixed magazine. '66 is stamped into the heavy taper high gloss barrel making me think that's the year of build.
My last curiosity is that in one of my "GUNSMITHS KINKS" books is a photo (B&W) of a man handling a rifle that looks just like it.....I wonder......
Howdy Tom,
That rifle looks great and the way you have made it is fantastic.
I live in WV and do some hunting but not much just small game.
I really enjoyed your video and I have subscribed because I like the way you do he videos.
Reminds me very much of Cumberland Outdoors channel.
God bless and have a safe day.
Tom, believe me... I hear you. Much has changed over time, but to recall the old French proverb: "The more we change, the more we stay the same". I'm thankful that folks like us recognize quality and craftsmanship. Think of how many of those wonderful old rifles end up destroyed by people who have no appreciation for them. Thanks for saving that old '03 from the scrap heap. Use it in good health!
Beautiful, thanks.
"Nothing has changed..." Great insight! Love your channel. Reading a book? Oh ,my... reading and knowledge from the past? How dangerous... ;) Luv it!
Beautiful job
Beautiful rifle and great content!
I am impressed with your 03 Springfield wood and steel is a work of beautifully crafted work I don’t have many firearms with synthetic stocks because I like walnut I also like the ebony tip I bought a rifle that the front of the stock was split and had ebony tip put on and had the stock clean up and refinish
Looks great thank you for saving some history
Great video. I did the same with a Swedish Mauser 6.5x55. Kept the chamber as is, worked the stock I had bought as a blank, and put peep sites on her. Accurate and fun to shoot.
Something special about a projects completion that truely pays homage to the journey it took to get there.
If that rifle could only talk of the hands that have handled it
hi tom , i'm of a 1964 vintage and i have several rifles after a renewed interest in hunting / shooting and two of my rifles are the late model plastic stock variety with the rest being laminated and walnut stocks one being mod 70 featherweight FN ' just recently i vowed never to buy a plastic stock rifle again ' if i had my starting choice of rifles over again there would only be 5 rifles in my gun cabinet that would be the model70 in 6.5cm , Marlin Laminated stock 30-30 , Henry 22mag golden boy (all of which are in the cabinet already ) and add a Remington model 700 BDL in 30-06 , and a Browning X-bolt in .223 all timber . Love the show , cheers .
Wow!... That Ol' Girl turned out Pretty Sweet!..... Good job man!....
That turned into a right fine shootin iron, Tom. A keeper for sure.
Man this really gave me inspiration. Ive been trying to decide on wether or not to buy a new rifle for this coming deer season or just work my old sporterized 03-A3 into what i need it to be. The chambering in .308 Norma Mag, makes ammo a pain to find… but maybe its worth it
Nicely done. Chapeau - a tip of the hat to you..!
Thank you!
That turned out great. I love that kinda stuff
Tom, I'm letting you know I found a 03/A3 yesterday on 4/13/24. After watching your video . I got at a Gun Auction. For less than 300.Clams. When I returned home I discovered that the Dark Bore was in fact a Crusty & Rusty Bore😢. I was heartbroken 💔 . But then I remembered that I had a M44 Mosin Nagant Rifle that had a Dark Bore. So I followed the same cleaning procedure that I used to make that bore shiny on the M 44 and it worked again now off to the range to see if I need a new barrel or if I lucked out and corrected the issue.
A timeless beauty indeed
Impressive. A labor of love.
Spot on. Love the video and your work.
Thanks Deborah, I appreciate that!
looks like a beautifull job tom.
Tom - I am amazed at the accuracy you are achieving from a GI barrel. Clearly the exterior has been re-contoured and smoothed, but the bore I assume is basically as Remington made it during WWII. Good for you! It's a nice job and makes a special rifle for you to take into the field.
beau-ti-ful
and I KNOW from making guitars that the shape YOU made, and YOU decided was right
feels ANATOMICALLY perfect in your hands
Well done 👏 gorgeous rifle
Recent fan, LOVE your work, James, Darwin Australia
🙂👍you know what I like about it it's not perfect it's what you put in it a little love and care makes it personal for you and I appreciate that.
I wish I had you or someone with your knowledge as my neighbor I'd be spending all my free time learning your skills
beautiful stock my friend!
Turned out really nice!
From what I can see on the video I think you did a really nice job on that rifle, and the classic red rubber buttpad is just the chef's kiss. Frankly, I think you turned that rifle into one fine looking firearm.
The thing about craftsmanship and fine firearms is that a lot people don't get much exposer to such things. For example, a few years ago my father acquired a very nice Winchester Model 62a pump .22. My father told one of his closest friends who also happens to be into guns about it and how much he paid for it. His friend told my father "why would you pay that much for a .22 rifle." It was only when my father's friend shot it that he finally understood why my father paid the price to get that particular gun. So without that kind of exposure people can easily overlook the fine firearms they may come across in their local gun store either new or used, and/or not understand why a person would purchase a fine firearm over a cheaper offering.
Love it! Sweet rifle!
Great job Tom! Man, the book is expensive! But it's probably worth it.
Just as good as any new one!
Gorgeous Thanks for the vdeo and time 👍
Great looking rifle!
Sir I recognize craftsmanship, I do a little myself, and I enjoy the work of others such as yourself. Its simple liveing.
I like it. I got me a 1903 Springfield as well. Just an old sporterized 06 from the pawn shop like yours, nuthin fancy. When I chronographed it the original 2 groove barrel velocity was really low. So I had a local Gunsmith put an inexpensive new Numrich barrel on it, found an old Fajen stock and it feels and shoots great. She's a keeper. Brown rifles matter. :D
LOL. I'm guessing this one was rebarreled as well? The receiver is a 1942 a3 but the barrel is September 1943 and I was thinking they only made a4's in late 43.
Love your videos . And you created a beautiful tool from a beauty of the past and I appreciate the craftsmanship and TIME spent for restoring a time peace into a awesome deer rifle. Great job . You dont happen to have a line on a clip for a parker and hale 308 ? A project I would like to do, I inherited this gun and would love to continue using it for the heritage and sentimental reasons .
I agree with you about accuracy, I think people put too much importance on it today, too often sacrificing aesthetics and other aspects in search of ever better accuracy. An extremely accurate rifle is truly wonderful, but not absolutely necessary. Some very nice rifles might not be absolute tackdrivers, but they have more than adequate hunting accuracy and will harvest many, many head of game with no problem and you have the added advantage of useing a good looking classic rifle. 👍👍👍