I have heard and seen at least as many problems with any of them. The NO receivers seemed to have stood up through the years about as well as any other comparable receiver, the Mausers, etc. I think a guy named Murphy wrote a book about things relating to steel balls and rubber mallets. Only way I'd buy one is at a dirt cheap price to be stripped for parts (without ever firing it) in restoring a genuine 03A3 with real milspec receiver. Poorly finish machined with crooked screw holes is the most noticable.
Theres a laundry list of other faults found with the NO clone rifles. The NO failures were totally due to bad metalurgy. The majority of brittle LN receiver failures were traced to defective ammunition and/or defective subcontrated barrels. The NO receiver is not a milspec receiver, it has no historical significance.Ĭonsidering the known number of LN 03 receiver failures compared to production figures and a comparasion to the number of reported NO receiver failures with its very limited production numbers, the NO comes off badly compared to even the worst recognized 03 production runs. The LN receivers are still considered the least desirable unless you are buying the rifle for its historical significance. Shooters are still warned about the possibility of getting a bad low number 03 receiver. It was ordered that whenever a LN 03 rifles was sent in to be rebarreled the receiver would be replaced.
When there were blow outs of Low Number 1903 receivers it caused a serious flap and intense investigations into why, and the manufacturing processes were altered. There were millions of Springfield 1903-1903A3 rifles built, perhaps tens of millions of Mausers from many different factories around the world. One reported noticing extreme difficulty in opening the bolt, and stopped shooting before a mishap occured, others weren't so diligent and keep shooting till a case head blew out. Headspace would begin to increase unexpectedly till the casehead was no longer properly supported. Theres a photo of a blown up NO rifle on this threadĪfter back tracking through several threads on old forums discussing failures of NO receivers the gist seems to be that some are far too soft at the lug recesses.
Rifles made before then using receivers bought back from Golden State or Golden State built rifles are the worst of the breed. I know some companies will import such things if they can be produced far more cheaply than if manufactured in house, but I can't say for sure whether this was the case.įrom the general drift of the information Rifles manufactured in the 70's have the best of the Cast Receivers, possibly made in Ohio. One member says the Yugo Receivers were imported by Golden State, while another says Golden State bought the receivers from Rimer Casting in Ohio through National Ordnance. One member said the Cast receiver 03A3 was originally built by Golden State, and after they'd had some problems National Ordnance bought their remaining parts and marketed the rifles. Don't do it, i still have pieces of a national ordanace in my eye, nose,lip, roof of my mouth and one messed up tooth stay away!!! some make thousands of safe shots and like mine it made 79 safe shots and the last damn near took my face off.
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