The barrel is the correct date for your receiver and is probably original. The information suggesting your rifle dates to Nov 41 is incorrect.
By the time your rifle was made over 140,000 o3's had been made by Remington. Its highly doubtful any "left over" parts would have been used by that point (if at all!).
When your rifle was built Remington was making on the order of 30,000 rifles a month. The barrel dates may be a little ahead of rifle assembly - maybe a month or so. The best data on serial numbers has been carefully calculated taking in to account scrap rates and the like. The only data that's really known are the serail number ranges assigned to each manufacturer, how many rifles were made each month and how many rifles were shipped each month. When you line that information all upand factor in the estimated scrap rates there is a very high correlation between the better lists (there are some terrible ones on the net and even in books) and the actual rifles encounterd in the real world.
The best lists can be found at the Remington Collectors Society Website and Vishooter.com (both sites rely on the same source - The Remington Site has a wealth of explanatory data)
Remington did receive production equipment from Springfield and Rock Island Arsenals. The Springfield equipment was pretty much worn out but the Rock Island gear had been carefully stored along with appropriate jigs, gauges, tools and cutters. RIA had even gone so far as to include ''before and after components" showing what a piece looked like before an operation was performed and then immediately after. The RIA equipment was also driven by overhead belting which was what the Remington facility also used.
Regards,
Jim
By the time your rifle was made over 140,000 o3's had been made by Remington. Its highly doubtful any "left over" parts would have been used by that point (if at all!).
When your rifle was built Remington was making on the order of 30,000 rifles a month. The barrel dates may be a little ahead of rifle assembly - maybe a month or so. The best data on serial numbers has been carefully calculated taking in to account scrap rates and the like. The only data that's really known are the serail number ranges assigned to each manufacturer, how many rifles were made each month and how many rifles were shipped each month. When you line that information all upand factor in the estimated scrap rates there is a very high correlation between the better lists (there are some terrible ones on the net and even in books) and the actual rifles encounterd in the real world.
The best lists can be found at the Remington Collectors Society Website and Vishooter.com (both sites rely on the same source - The Remington Site has a wealth of explanatory data)
Remington did receive production equipment from Springfield and Rock Island Arsenals. The Springfield equipment was pretty much worn out but the Rock Island gear had been carefully stored along with appropriate jigs, gauges, tools and cutters. RIA had even gone so far as to include ''before and after components" showing what a piece looked like before an operation was performed and then immediately after. The RIA equipment was also driven by overhead belting which was what the Remington facility also used.
Regards,
Jim
