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Interesting markings on that guns barrel.

Any other provenance on the gun that you know of? Including the butt stock letters which I presume spell a name?

Great snag. I am sure you will get lots of enjoyment out of it.
Steve

There is an extra ring of metal added to the front of the receiver that holds the rear of the top forearm wood. Are you sure that the last 3 is not under that ring?

The early MHG rifles did not have a caliber stamped where you could see it. After 1654xx they are marked on top of the receiver ring. Wonder how may have had the .303 British round poked in them? Luckily the round is too long.

The only other one I have seen was stamped .303 Sav all visible. As I said, I loaded and cycled 5 rounds of factory .303 Sav with 0 issues. I did not remove the wood to look, not do I intend to. It will remain a mystery.

By 1914 Sav30 had not been used for about 12 years

It looks like the last 3 is just covered by the shadow of the rear band, the font is not correct for the early SAV 30 stamp, it's the standard 303 style, and it's farther forward than the SAV 30 stamps were.

Added, tried to get a bigger picture attached, top is a SAV 30, middle LBK's and bottom another MHG with the caliber also on the receiver ring.

Thank you, Gene. As I said the only info I have is picture # 3. I do know for sure the chamber is .303 and the wood is in place, not to be removed by me

I fired that rifle with 303 Savage ammo when I owned it.

Oh, there I go again trying to help. Must stop doing that.

I'm in Gene's camp on this. The other thing I'll toss in is, if I'm not mistaken (no books with me), that the barrel address on it was used from about SN 100k to 200k, so that barrel does not date to the timeframe the SAV 30 stamp was used.

More pics like Gene's:

Congratulations Steve. Is this Nan's new gun? When you are up this way ii sure would like to see it.

A BIG thank you to you.

We need to get up that way soon. Nan and I are deer hunting mid November on Anticosti. It's a tough time of the year to squeeze in a trip with the holidays. I will give you a call when it happens. I'd love to show it to you.

Congrats on a sweet pickup. I am very happy it's in a great home.

Great find,i hope you get many years of enjoyment out of it.

Issue SOLVED. I removed the upper wood. And Gene was right.

Terrific. You will sleep well tonight.

Thanks, Jim.

Yes, there is other provenance, check out the 4th or 5th post. The letters spell Notman.

Do the muster rolls of the Montreal Home Guard exist? Would be neat to confirm the name on the stock to a member of same.

Again, Stephen, excellent great snag.

There used to be, not anymore. F him.

Why would anyone go out of their way to help someone that has them on ignore, takes them off ignore to send them a message, then puts them back on ignore.