The Springfield M1903 Way back in 1892, the US Government adopted their first official bolt action rifle, the 1892 Krag Jorgensen Rifle. Prior to that, the military was using the Trapdoor Springfield (1873 model) and before that, they were using the Allen Conversion of the Civil War muskets...
Soon after the bolt-action .30-cal. U.S. M1903 Springfield was introduced and into production, the Ordnance Department began developmental work on a telescopic-sighted version of the new rifle. During the final development of the M1903 the Small Arms Firing Regulations of 1904 was released and...
The MILTECH Model 98K's were originally manufactured between 1935 and 1945 and all have matching numbers, a deep blue finish, very good to excellent original bores, calibrated sights and a new laminated military stock. All the serial numbers, inspector stamps and dates are still intact on the...
The Master Armorer's House, No. 10, built in the 1830s, was once the home of Erskine Allin, the Master Armorer responsible for the standard breechloading rifle used in the Indian Wars of the late 1800s and in the Spanish-American War. Buildings Numbers correspond to those historically as...