.30-03. 24" barrel length. SN: 709. Blued metal finish with walnut straight-wrist stock with grasping grooves. Bolt-action repeating rifle fed by an internal box magazine mounting adjustable rear ladder and pinned front blade sights. Receiver markings read U.S./SPRINGFIELD/ARMORY/MODEL 1903 with the barrel displaying the marking SA/{Ordnance Bomb}/05, indicating that the barrel was replaced during the rifle's update from the original ramrod bayonet pattern 1903 rifle. Bayonet lug is struck H, indicating that it was hardened as of 1908. An L initial appears on the wrist and U to the lower barrel band. Stock shows no extant inspection marks and lacks the reinforcing bolts added to the 1906 and later versions. Magazine cutoff shows the ON and OFF markings with serifs correct to early production examples. Stock mounts a smooth trapdoor buttplate with a compartment void of tools. Mounts a pattern 1905 sling.