Beautiful 1943 Remington

[Mp40Bran]

I have a WW2 1943 Remington 03-A3 for review. Please let me know what you think! I really appreciate everyone's opinion.

[Mp40Bran]

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[Johnny Peppers]

Appears to be original, and went through Ogden Arsenal at some time and received the OGEK mark. Doesn't mean that anything was done; just that it went through the facility.

The barrel, receiver, and safety should be phosphate (Parkerized), with all other parts being blued.

My slightly earlier original Remington.

[101combatvet]

Stock has been oiled or something (looking at the wrong 03). The first one looks fine, must be a late 43. Many of these came out of the DCM back in the day.

[Johnny Peppers]

The early Remington 03-A3 stocks did not have the RA on them, but can be told from the Smith-Corona stocks by the square cut on the front lower band spring cut, and the Remington has a 7/16" circle on the P proof where the S-C had a 1/2" circle.

The Remington buttplate (stamped) was 1/16" checkered where the Smith-Corona was 3/16".

[tsmgguy]

Very nice 03-A3, entirely correct.

[Mauser888]

A beauly for show I would be happy to own!

[Johnny Peppers]

Stock has been oiled or something (looking at the wrong 03). The first one looks fine, must be a late 43. Many of these came out of the DCM back in the day.

I don't know which one you are talking about either, but the one I show came through the DCM, and other than cleaning up the grease is original.

[jtb1967]

Nice original looking 03.

[Willi Z.]

Very nice indeed! Very sharp. Might have to replace the ones I had decades ago.