Mark I parts

[chicagored]

I just recieved my '03 mark I last wednesday. After removing the grease and cosmoline a beautiful blued rifle was revealed. The rifle has the finger groove stock with plenty of "character", but in better shape than I expected and its a mark I stock to boot. None of the mark I parts are there though not even the cutoff. What happened to the Mark I parts? None of the parts people I know of list them; (sarco, numrich, ect.) I feel it would be worthwhile to find these parts if possible, even though the barrel is a HS 7/44. At least it appears to be brand new, and has 4 grooves. A much better rifle than I expected, the crappy weather we have had has kept me from getting any range time but I bet it will be a great shooter. I plan on using it in the next J.C. Garand match :samurai: :usa:

[gaweidert]

Mark I's were converted back to regular '03's as they came in to the armory. There are a few complete ones out there. Mine has the original barreland is probably my most accurate milsurp rifle. I have toyed with the idea of competing with it, but I need lots of practice to so that.

Does your stock have the additional cutout under the ejection port? Mine does not but it is a finger groove barrel. Best place to find parts would be on e-bay. All sorts of stuff there. Bayonets for '03 Springfields are EXPENSIVE.

[chicagored]

My rifle has the Mark I stock. However the barrel is a replacement , it is a HS (High Standard) dated 7/44. this barrel has four grooves and appears to be unfired. The weather has still been bad when I could go to the range (lol) but I bet this rifle will shoot way better than I can. I did look at e-bay all 41 pages of gun parts, alas no mark I parts. But I did find brass stripper clips and there are scads of A3 parts. Sometime back I saw a pederson device on e-bay, alas that went for mucho dinero. Besides it was not a complete device, I think it was a lunch pail import from someone who may have been working where they were scrapped. :unsure:

[chicagored]

I forgot to say this, go ahead and enter a J.C.Garand match. First off you learn bunches. second you see where you can improve, third you meat some cool folks who share your passion for high power military weapons. finally you see lots of different rifles, thereby further your knowledge. I did not do so hot myfirst match, but it motivated me to learn more. Go ahead and buy the four books by Jim Owens. You can get them from fulton armory or from this web site.
www.jarheadtop.com
These Books are a no nonsense approach, they have humor based on anecdotes from the marine corps and highpower rifle matches, and they are good reads.
best of luck to you. :usa: :)

[gaweidert]

I do have a finger groove stock. Do you think I could add the cutout to make it lookmore realistic? After all, I bet that 's what was done in the first place. I did see a MArk I trigger assembly on E-bay.

[chicagored]

Indeed I saw those too my bid still did not meet the reserve. I will see if anyone else bids. Eventually I will have to ask what the reserve is in order to determine if I am willing or able to meet it. Thanks for the heads up though muy appreciado. :cannon:

ps. actually I don't see why not I would have done the same thing myself. Though neither one of us is fixing to find a paederson device. You actually dont have to do much the cut out is hardly perceptable unless a markI action is wsitting in the stock. Between you and I, I would have to get the right six numbers to find a pederson device and all its acutraments. By the way That rifle is a tack driving instrument indeed. :D

[chicagored]

For anyone concerned speaking of pederson devices in the CMP forum there is a thread that contains the best pictures of a complete mark I set-up I have ever seen. Absolutely beautiful.