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Sgt LaBelle	Smith Corona Rebuild	Lead	[-]
Posts: 42 (07/05/09 07:22 PM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None I'm new on this area of this sight. So I thought I'd post a Smith Corona that I saved from Bubba. The original pistol grip stock was cut off and filled all around the pistol grip for who knows why. The original rear sight had a "V" filed in it, and it had an 03 triger guard and a remington milled butt plate. I scoped it out of a local auction for short money. It said in the discription that the bore was worn with some pitting. Wrong. A little dirty and it's a 6 grove. It aslo said the barrel date was "48". It's "43". I got the stock from a board member here. It was found in a attick in Arizona. It was dry, but not one of those cosmo black greasy pigs. I came with a remington stamped but plate. All I realy needed was a upper band. I came up with a Remington one for reasonable money. I had the other bands and swivels, but there Remington. Man, can you believe what 03 and 03-A3 parts are going for these days? It's just nuts! Anyways after a little cleaning on the stock (no sanding) and about coats 5 of Behr tong oil, here she is. Not minty, but saved from bubba drilling and taping it to put a scope on it. I did have a rare SC winter triger guard and a corect SC butt plate in the parts stash saved for a rainy day. And yes the stock turned out to be a correct Smith Corona stock.
eb in oregon		#1	[-]
Posts: 939 (07/05/09 08:00 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Very nice. I regret parting with a mint condidtion Smith-Corona that I had during high school. Traded it for a busted hemi engine. What a dope. eb "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776
Sgt LaBelle		#2	[-]
Posts: 46 (07/06/09 05:58 AM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Do you still have the Hemi?
Jeremy2171		#3	[-]
Posts: 2165 (07/06/09 08:53 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Whats the ser# mine is 363854X
bob30829		#4	[-]
Posts: 5 (07/06/09 08:29 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	nice job on the rebuild. back in the day i would buy them with cut off stocks and other parts missing. but then parts were not a problem i would go to the gunsmiths and they were happy to give me cigar boxes of parts and nice stocks that they removed for sporter guns. over the years i have owned 50-60 03 and 03-a3 traded some sold some. still have about a dozen or more.
Sgt LaBelle		#5	[-]
Posts: 49 (07/08/09 05:57 PM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	36338XX
ThePitbullofLove		#6	[-]
Posts: 6592 (07/08/09 08:23 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Jeremy2171 wrote: Whats the ser# mine is 363854X Mine's 370147X Life is the crummiest book I ever read, there isn't a hook; Just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up...