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- Texas
- Vehicle Year
- 2007
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- Ford
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- 4.0 V6
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- 4.0L SOHC
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- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 2WD
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- I need more sleep.
My grandpa owns a 1903 Springfield that was made in 1910. Now 1907-1912 there were not made very well, the production method was done by eye, so some of the guns failed and blew up. Now being made in 1910 it is in the bracket of failure, but here is the reality on it. First off, during 1910 29,549 were made. And can you guess how many failed? Only 4. Secondly, at some point there was a different stock put on it, a fairly modern stock to sporterize the weapon which leads me to believe it was used as a sporting rifle. The fact that only 4 failed is such a low number that I would have a better chance of being injured by a falling meteor. Tomorrow I plan on going out and shooting it and if it doesn't blow up I'll report back with some pictures. And after that hopefully I can get a reproduction stock for it, original ones are expensive. If you guys ever pick up a rifle in the bracket I would not worry, the chance that it would explode is so low, the max that ever happened was 5 in 1911, 25,298 were made.
