well i put the word out i wanted to sell, or trade it the S/147. this was not too long after the rc k98s hit the market. well this guy in chat wanted it and just happened to have a bunch of 1903 recievers and parts to trade off. so i thought hey i can make a little on this gun and get started on the 1903 sniper i wished to build or trade it off for mauser stuff. either way i would do ok on the deal soooo.....we trade i got the barreled reciever bolt and so on. while i was checking out my purchas i noticed that it had the bumps on the bottom of the ring. i remembered that the cmp had some 1903 drill rifles it was selling some time back, of note to me was the welds; reiever to barrel, mag cuttoff, bolt face and so on. i saw that where the drill rifles had the ring welded right there was the grinding and extra metal on this one. i then checked out the mag cutoff area and yep a little disfigured. everything else but the extractor apeared new. so i confronted the fellow in a chat session with others as wittensses. he didnt want to send me a new reciever and said this one was fine. i said ok lets trade back you take your stuff and your $ and i will take my k98 back...he wanted me to pay him at this point above the original deal. it just degenerated down in that chat to my k98 was unsafe because i said his 1903 was unsafe. in the end he got to keep my k98 and i ended up with a pile of parts.
you looked at the 1903 in my hunt101 page? on it you can clearly see the extra metal on the bottom of the ring.
since i was stuck with it i figured well i could try some proof loads in it. i made up 10 or 12 overloads gradualy going up in powder. nothing seemed to happen alls well, apon further inspection i found where the reciever and barrel mate together there was now a crack in the spray and bake finish right infront of the welded area of the reciever.
well that was that the thing is unsafe so i parted it out. later i used it to practice tapping holes for scope mounting and thats all i ever did with it.
as a warning be very careful dealing with anyone from kallamazoo MI first name john. thats about all i can say in public.
now i will only buy from dealers or people i know, and have a good track record.


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