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New to this forum. Hope I’m posting in correct place. I have a 1903 Springfield NRA sporter with a Unertl 10x scope on receiver/barrel blocks that look like those pictured in Brophy’s book pp 211-212. I would like to replace the unertl with a Winchester A5 (as pictured in the book). I have been told that the blocks for the A5 & the early unertl are the same so probably just need scope & possibly mounts to fit my gun/blocks. Can anyone help?
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Tom Watson
December 31, 2012
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New to this forum. Hope I’m posting in correct place. I have a 1903 Springfield NRA sporter with a Unertl 10x scope on receiver/barrel blocks that look like those pictured in Brophy’s book pp 211-212. I would like to replace the unertl with a Winchester A5 (as pictured in the book). I have been told that the blocks for the A5 & the early unertl are the same so probably just need scope & possibly mounts to fit my gun/blocks. Can anyone help?Thanks
Tom Watson
What year is the Sporter? Big Larry
November 1, 2013
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I have been told that the blocks for the A5 & the early unertl are the same so probably just need scope & possibly mounts to fit my gun/blocks.
Unertl began building scopes before he was producing mounts of his own design, so in the beginning, he used Lyman mounts & blocks, not Winchester, which by then had already sold their scope business to Lyman; but the blocks retained the same dimensions.
The Sporter was recorded as being sold by DCM in May of 1924.
Barrel is dated 12 -23. Receiver is 1923.
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The Sporter was recorded as being sold by DCM in May of 1924.
Barrel is dated 12 -23. Receiver is 1923.
As you probably know, ’23 was the first year of production. Would the Springfield Research Service records indicate whether it was D&T on special order? Would make a considerable difference in the value.
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Chances are, the armory didn’t do it. I have seen many receipts from the old DCM concerning D&T’s Sporters and never ran into one that stated it was D&T’d at the factory. I have owned several Sporters back when I collected Springfields and not one was D&T’d. The Style “T”s were. Big Larry
