Welcome back everybody today I want to showcase another Mill syrup for you we got a Smith Koroma oh three a three or what's pretty much widely known as the Springfield oh three commonly this particular rifle fires thirty-aught-six caliber old military round that you know been around since 1906 and a little few years prior to that this particular gun design was actually stole basically stolen by the US government from the Mauser brothers and we took the basically took the Mauser action and copied it for use in this rifle and we actually got sued by the Germans or by the Mauser brothers respectively and what's funny is you know we were in a war with the Germans and we were actually paying the Germans royalties for a gun that we were using to fight against them with pretty much built on proven Mauser action similar it does have a magazine cut off the a3 rifle is a little bit different than some of the Oh threes you'll see out there it's got a different sighting arrangement set up a little bit different it's got a lot of stamped parts as opposed to mill which makes production a lot easier and everything like that real nice little rifle five shot repeater bolt-action I'm going to show you some close-ups of it and then we're going to take it out to 4:40 on some gongs and a huge a little bit Springfield o3 is a very safe design you have to Ford locking lugs dually opposed that lock into the receiver and then you also have a third safety lug similar to the Mauser that locks in place against the receiver right here Julian Hatcher performed a test on the o3 where he actually ground the locking lugs off of the front of the bolt and used only the locking lug to hold the whole action shut and he fired I think it was like 2000 service loads through the rifle with no problems whatsoever so it's a very strong design has a magazine cutoff for a single fire the safety is a traditional Mauser style safety on the back of the bolt shroud over to the right is safe and it reads safe right here the bolt won't open over to the left ready you can open the bolt work the gun and fire the rifle the knurled cocking piece on the back facilitates being able to grab it all that good stuff that it's hard it's basically a Mauser action the Springfield o3 uses either milled or stamped floor plate non hinged the butt plate like many US military rifles has a storage compartment for Oilers cleaning materials so on and so forth this particular butt plate is stamped has a nice checkering on the back rides in the shoulder quite nicely that's very typical for US military guns they always have that style butt plate you'll see that in the garand xot threes m-14s so
