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Why I need proper stocks for 1903
I have a 1903 .32 6" Target that has a rickety pair of stocks, and the gun cleaned up like a diamond in the rough. A few rough spots like on the front sight, but all in all a 95%+ gun. Stocks are ugly. However, I decided to shoot it with my .32 Wadcutter loads and adjust the sights once I had taken the surface crud off the threads.....1st shot was dead center X....the rest is obvious....50ft target at 50'...remarkable...
Someone help me find a pretty pair of stocks...this beauty needs them...
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Good shooting, Terry, good shooting. Wish I could still see those fine sights.
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The originals were probably the tiny hard rubber I frame stocks of the era, so I would say "ugly is as ugly doesn't" for shooting and leave those on  .
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07-29-2018, 11:36 PM
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What a beauty!
With the logo on side plate, target stocks, and bright blue, it was likely pre war made and shipped right after the war. Stocks are correct and don't look that bad in the photos. Are they numbers matching?
Congrats!
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Terry, those stocks look just fine to me. What is the serial number of the gun and are the stocks numbered?
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If you don't want the stocks I'll buy them!
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It is unlikely the 32 Target model had standard hard rubber stocks. I have never seem its little brother, the 22/32 without those walnut or early hard rubber extended target stocks and the 32 Target would have been the same.
If I read your picture correctly, the 216XXX serial number fits into the 5th Model production range. The ship date seems a little late for that serial number, but maybe inventory levels were high at the time. Production shows from 1910 - 1917 with serial numbers from 102501 to 263000. It looks like the stocks have been damaged and reshaped at the top rear, but if they match the gun, not much value is lost. All the teens era stocks I have seen have a pronounced flair and shelf at the top of the stocks. Maybe the exposed grain made it easy to crack or split off at that location.
My picture below of the stocks on teens and twenties 22/32s show the 1917 era stocks on the bottom gun, 253XXX shipped in May 1917.
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Wow, that's good shooting!
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