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Originally Posted by S&WIowegan
Thanks for the further information on heat treat and '03s. When I bought my rifle many years ago I was totally unaware of the heat treat problem. When I did learn, I hurried to my safe to check the SN. Happily, my SN is above 800,000 by a bit. I had already fired a whole series of handloads when I was learning to load '06 ammo. The rifle survived and went to the range about a year ago for a workout.
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The double heat treated M1903's were amongst the strongest actions ever made, near impossible to blow up. I used to collect US militaria and had a few I loaded rather heavily, and they were super accurate. Big Larry