Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats My latest 1903 Springfield sporter.

My latest Springfield 1903 sporter is starting to take shape. I am thinking this may be my last one so I have installed most of the goodies I have collected over the years. It will have a half octagon-half round barrel, three position safety, custom Buehler scope bases, Band front swivel eye, band front ramp, trap buttplate and custom hinged floorplate-triggerguard. Stock is a piece of straight grained English and scope is a leupold 3 power. It will still be a bit before it will be done but I guess it isn't really needed to hunt with at the present.

OH BTW the caliber is: what else, a 30-06 of course.

I apologize for the quality of the photos as I snapped them in a hurry in between other tasks today.

Very nice! An American classic.

id shoot it.

Very Nice

I like it. The stock, tell us more.

That should be a real nice firearm when it's done.

Looking very nice Sir!
Butch

I like that a lot. The 3x is a good choice.

Are you sure you wouldn't like a recoil pad?

That looks great!

Thanks for your kind words.

The stock was turned by Dennis Olson from a Griffin & Howe style pattern as evidenced by the treatment behind the cutoff housing and the general shape of the cheek piece . I decided on a schnable forend and I like the shape that it turned out to be. I have long admired the earlier Griffin & Howe styled stocks so decided to have a similar one done for this rifle. The grip is not as open as the ones on a few other rifles I have but it feels good to me.

Thank you for your kind words.

I'm not very big on recoil pads and a good share of my rifles have steel buttplates on them. I also wanted this one to have a trapdoor buttplate so I can store a Buehler peep sight that fits on the rear scope base if the scope becomes unusable.

Very nice looking classic rifle, Larry. That wood is beautiful!

Nicely done!

yes, a recoil pad would be a heresy on such a classic. very very nice.

nice looking rifle my old friend pete had a soft spot for springfields. will you checker it ?

Ed

Ed

I also miss Pete. I always enjoyed our limited correspondences. He was my kind of man.

Yes, it will be checkered, probably with a Griffin & Howe style pattern.

Great looking Springfield, a point pattern with a mullered border will complete the classic look in my opinion. I recently acquired an M2 Springfield that I would like to sporterize in similar fashion.