Educational Zone #68 - Great Firearms - The 1903-A3 Springfield Rifle

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Educational Zone #68 - Great Firearms - The 1903-A3 Springfield Rifle - Page 3

This method of reloading is very quick, once mastered.

The rifle is a real pleasure to shoot.

It kicks a little, but hey…. it's a battle rifle.

The extractor is a "positive feed" type, meaning that the extractor grabs the rim of the round as it feeds into the chamber and holds it tight.

Working the action sharply will positively eject the empty case.

The rifle even has a neat little chamber in the butt to store an oiler.

These heavy rifles were also supplied with a bayonet and I put mine on my rifle to show how they looked.

This one was given to me by a friend on AR15.com.

It is a shortened bayonet, which was shortened from around 16 inches to around 9 inches, a very common practice by U.S. troops.

In the days of magazine fed, 5 shot rifles, a bayonet was considered to be a necessity in case your position was over run.