"I got a few Old Army Guns."

[Adam Helmer]

Gil,

Correction needed: I checked the floorplates and both are stamped M1903A3. The other two were Turkish Mausers or whatever. The bands are also M1903A stamped. You may have them if you can use them.

Besides 200 and 300 yard targets, bring a gallon of G.I. Bore cleaner in original packaging and we are even, 10-4? A few "sleeves" of GI cfleaning patches would also go well.

The M1903 stock has an "EHD" cartouche and "OGD" which indicates it has a WWII overhaul. I will never need it and if you can refit a genuine WWII M1903, so much the better. The butt plate is on the stock, but I have no original M1903 front band or upper sling swivel. This is to prevent you from driving to get such stuff under false hopes.

REMEMBER: Yesterday on May 28, 1951, it was 60 years ago we finished our First Grade at the one-room Franklin Hall School 30 miles NW of Philadelphia and we endured outhouses until 1954 when we moved to the two-room school house in Chester Springs. My how we have changed. We close firehouses and police stations and build new ones in Iraq. We also build schools with flush toilets for an 8th Century culture who never had running water. We surely have come a long way!

Adam