Client will pick this up next week. It has color case, skelton grip, widow's peak, Fleur checkering and rust blue. I hope he likes it.

Jim

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Drool! If he does not like it, let me know!!!

Beautiful. I do love a Springfield.

Jerry Liles

Now that is my kinda rifle! I especially like a well-done Dale Goens fleur pattern even though it may be 'out of style' for some.
Regards, Joe

Fantastic! Cannot wait to get started on my springfield now!

Is that a lapour safety?

Super nice, gotta love a Springfield

Wow Jim, I usually love .25-06's but I lust after that one! Beautiful!

Very nice.
Photographs are very nice also, very professional.
Very nice work.

that is beautiful. i have a springfield waiting to be turned into something just like that, only without sights and in 6.5-06. just waiting on funds...if i do it now i won't have enough money left to pay for the divorce.

Superb craftsmanship.

That is nice. I love the wood.

Whats not to like? Thats just the way a rifle should look.

Love the case colors, who did you use?

Turnbull did the case color.

Jim,

Did you fill the ejection port on the side rail and how was it done?

Nice job by the way....

Cheers,
Mark.

Jim, again I am in awe of your skill and craftsmanship.

Rob

I also like the little window in the front scope base. It allows viewing the serial # and still permits a wide stable scope base, and so your idea has solved a problem that has plagued me in the past. Thanks!
Regards, Joe

That's an 03 Springfield actiom??? Holy Crap!

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Originally posted by Mark R:
Jim,

Did you fill the ejection port on the side rail and how was it done?

Nice job by the way....

Cheers,
Mark.

DId not fill the ejection port; not sure what you mean by that.

Sorry Jim,

I'm new to the Springfeild "03 and mine looks like the following pic and I thought they were all the same....

Cheers,
Mark.

Mark,

Yours looks like the 03A3 Mark 1.

The hole is an ejection port for what was known as a Pederson device. An add on to make a full auto rifle out of the Springfield. It used a cartridge a like a shortened 30 carbine and spit the empties through the hole.

That hole is not normal for the vast majority of Springfields. Most have a solid left receiver wall. According to Frank de Hass' book about 100,000 Mark 1's were made. Other than the hole, they are the same.

Jeremy

By the way, that is a sweet rifle Mr. Kobe.

Jeremy

Mr Kobe. You must'a lost... 'Cause if I was building that gorgeous rifle; I would've told the client that if he wanted me to disfigure the cocking piece like that, he was going to have to kick my ass in order to make me do it.
Wonderful workmanship, just the same. Grant.

That cocking piece came with the safety kit.

Nice rifle all around.

Enjoy!

I cannot remember seeing a more eye pleasing rifle. US history combined with nearly impossible to find modern craftsmanship. You have created a masterpiece. Congrats!!!

First off to Mark, I may be fuzzy but I think that it is a 1903 mark 1, not a 03a3. it is correct that the cutout is for the peterson device, but I think it is not an 03a3 (later production, not as well finished in my opinion and with stamped bottom metal and bolt that looked like a camshaft).

Once it's all put together the cutout doesn't look bad at all, I recently sold one for my stepfather that was that way and it looked great IMO.

Jim, PM'ing with a question.

Red

If he doesn't like it, he's nuts!

That is just down right beautiful. Is the trigger guard a stock 03, and whose or what trigger did you use?

Just beautiful.

Thaine

Beautiful job and beautiful rifle!

More pictures added.

Beautiful rifle. I do love a Springfield done right. My only comments are find the Springfield cocking piece. An 03 just doesn't look right without it. Also the observatory class scope is just too big and awkward for the rifle. I think it really overpowers the fine lines of the rifle.

My opinion, for what it's worth.

Jerry Liles

I wouldn't change a thing, except maybe for putting my name on the build form :-)

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Originally posted by Jerry Liles:
Beautiful rifle. I do love a Springfield done right. My only comments are find the Springfield cocking piece. An 03 just doesn't look right without it. Also the observatory class scope is just too big and awkward for the rifle. I think it really overpowers the fine lines of the rifle.

My opinion, for what it's worth.

Jerry Liles

Yup. Definitely needs the original cocking piece. And the glass looks like a spotting scope.

But it is an otherwise beautiful rifle.

The big German scope looks revolting. It turns the package into an oversize clunker with no harmony. A Leupold 2.5 Alaskan would have been perfect.

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Originally posted by SR4759:
The big German scope looks revolting. It turns the package into an oversize clunker with no harmony. A Leupold 2.5 Alaskan would have been perfect.

Well, what the hell you gonna do; client wanted that scope!

Jim, them customers sure can screw up a good build! :-)

Mr Kobe,

I understand and sympathize. Us clients and potential clients can sure mess things up. The rifle is beautiful and my comments were not meant to disparage your craftsmanship. I appologize if it seemed that way. I still don't like the scope on that trim, elegant rifle though.

Just my unsolicited two cents.

Jerry Liles

on't know how many of you noticed the checkering job - it goes up one side over the top and down the other all in a continuous flow. that is awfully hard to do

Nice gun Jim,

As much as I hate Talley mounts that big Swarovski destroys their ugly outline a bit.

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Originally posted by butchloc:
on't know how many of you noticed the checkering job - it goes up one side over the top and down the other all in a continuous flow. that is awfully hard to do

That checkering job combines 2 of the most difficult areas for many smiths. The veiner work on the fleurs is quite tedious and requires a good artistic eye and a RAZOR-sharp tool, while the over-the-top and around-the-bottom treatment is apparently beyond most younger smiths' capabilities.

The TRUE wrap-around checkering job is getting rarer these days. I see a lot of jobs where the 2 panels MEET at their junctures but the diamond lines don't actually flow across the parting line onto the other side.

Attractive but still somewhat amateurish when shown next to a true wrap-around job done well, like THIS one.

IMO the only thing that would have made this checkering job more difficult would have been to incorporate ribbons into the design. IMO any point pattern, ANY point pattern at all, is child's play to accomplish when compared to a well-done fleur wrap-around one.

This is a Dale Goens pattern/treatment, and IMO is one of the 2 or 3 most attractive patterns shown in Monte Kennedy's book. Dale was a master and I admire his work immensely.
Regards, Joe