Originally, the rifle was known as the U.S. Magazine Rifle, Model of 1903. Complete with a device on the left of the receiver, called a magazine cut off that prevented troops from wasting ammo. The cut off allowed the magazine to be filled with 5 rounds. With the cut off disabled, t...
M1903A3 - $2,495M1917 U.S. ENFIELD * CALIBER 30-06 During WWI, more M1917 Enfields saw action than any other U.S. Service rifle. Sergeant York used his M1917 U.S. Enfield to single handedly snipe over 250 German soldiers with such deadly accuracy that the other 132 Germans threw ...
At the end of the 19th century, the United States needed a new battle rifle to modernize their current rifles and to bring them into the 20th century. That is where the US M1903 rifle came onto the scene. When developing the M1903, Springfield Armory patterned it after the renowned Mauser...
Building a rifle musket combined the skills of master craftsmen and the techniques of mass production. Some 400 separate operations were needed to make the 50 parts of one 1861 rifle. While the weapon itself was not complicated, each part had to be made to very fine tolerances so that it c...