M1903 Springfield

The Springfield M1903 was the first service rifle to be adopted by all branches of the United States Armed Forces. It is a Mauser-style turnbolt action with a 24" barrel, 5-round staggered-column box magazine contained within the stock, and straight-grip single-piece stock. It fired the new high-velocity .30-'06 caliber cartridge which would become the standard US rifle and machine-gun round for the next 50 years.
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==Background==
===Development===
During the Spanish-American War, US Army troops in Cuba found their Krag-Jørgensen rifles severely outmatched by the Spanish Army's M1893 Mauser rifle. The high-velocity and flat trajectory of the 7x57mm cartridge compared to the .30-40 Krag made the Spanish rifle more accurate, and the Mauser design allowed for immediate reloading of the entire magazine via stripper clips, whereas the Krag could only be loaded singly. This gave the Spanish a decisive advantage in rate-of-fire. Another notable advantage of the Mauser was the smokeless powder used in the cartridges, which made their wielders extremely hard to spot, in sharp contrast to the puffs of smoke produced by the Spencer 1860 Carbines used by some of the U.S. soldiers, which made them easy targets for Spanish marksmen.
A more powerful .30-40 cartridge was developed in 1899, but generated too much chamber pressure for the rifle to withstand repeated firings. It was decided that an entirely new rifle was needed. Thousands of M1893 rifles - surrendered by Spanish troops in Cuba - were returned to the US and extensively studied at Springfield Armory, where it was decided that the Mauser was the superior design. A prototype rifle was produced in 1900; interestingly, it was very similar to Rifle No.5, the final M1892 Mauser prototype in the US Army rifle trials of 1892. This design was rejected, and a new design combining features of the 1898 Krag rifle and the 1893 Spanish Mauser was developed.
===Design===
The new M1901 prototype combined the cock-on-opening bolt, 30" barrel, magazine cutoff, stock and sights of the Krag-Jørgensen with the dual locking lugs, external claw extractor, and staggered-column magazine of the 1893 Mauser. Taking a cue from the Gewehr 98, a large safety lug was added to the side of the bolt behind the extractor, which would engage the receiver bridge and prevent the bolt moving rearwards. The bolt handle was also bent downwards, to make operation of the bolt faster. It fired an entirely new .30 caliber cartridge, which propelled a 220gr round-nosed bullet at 2,300ft/s. The design was unsuccessful, however, and returned to the drawing board for further improvements.
Following then-current trends in service rifles, the barrel was shortened to 24" after it was discovered that a longer barrel offered no appreciable ballistic advantage, and the shorter barrel was lighter and easier to handle. This "short rifle" also eliminated the need of a shorter carbine for mounted troops or cavalry. A spike-type bayonet with storage in the forend of the stock was added to the design, and the new design was officially adopted as the United States Rifle, Caliber .30, Model 1903. 
Almost immediately it underwent two important modifications. In 1905, with 80,000 rifles aready produced, then-US President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the spike bayonet redesigned; he believed it was too flimsy for combat. A conventional blade-type bayonet, the M1905, replaced it and all rifles already produced were retrofitted for the new bayonet. The .30-'03 cartridge was also troublesome; the bullet caused excessive wear on the rifling, and the round-nosed bullet was aerodynamically inefficient. A new cartridge, propelling a 150gr spitzer bullet at 2,700 ft/s (820 m/s) with improved propellant and redesigned case was approved in 1906, becoming the ubiquitous .30-'06. All existing rifles were re-chambered and re-sighted for the new cartridge. 
==M1903 Springfield==
===Specifications===
*Weight: 	8.65 lb (3.9 kg) depending on wood density
*Length: 	44.9 in (1,140 mm)
*Barrel length: 	24 in (610 mm)
*Cartridge: 	.30-03 Springfield; .30-06 Springfield
*Action: 	Bolt-action
*Muzzle velocity: 	2,800 ft/s (853 m/s)
*Feed system: 	5-round, 25-round (Air Service variant) stripper clip, internal box magazine
*Sights: 	Leaf rear sight, barleycorn-type front sight, Aperture rear sight, barleycorn-type front sight (M1903A3)
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===Film===
|-
| rowspan=6|The Unbeliever || Raymond McKee || Philip Landicutt || rowspan=6| || rowspan=6| 1918
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| Darwin Karr || "Lefty"
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| Moss Gill || Albert Mullins
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| Mortimer Martine || Eugene Harbrok
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| Earl Schenck || Emanuel Müller
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| || American, Belgian, and German soldiers
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| The Lost Battalion || || American soldiers || || 1919
|- 
| rowspan="5"|The Big Parade || John Gilbert || James Apperson || rowspan="5"| || rowspan="5"| 1925
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| Tom O'Brien || Bull
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| Karl Dane || Slim
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| George Beranger || A German soldier
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| || U.S. soldiers
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| The Merry Widow || || Monteblanco soldiers || || 1925
|-
| Wings || || American, French and German soldiers || || 1927
|-
| rowspan=3|Four Sons || James Hall || Joseph Bernle || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3| 1928
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| Jack Pennick || The Iceman
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| || U.S. soldiers
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| rowspan="5"|Doughboys || Buster Keaton || Elmer J. Stuyvesant Jr. || rowspan="5"| || rowspan="5"| 1930
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| Cliff Edwards || Nescopeck
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| Edward Brophy || Sergeant Brophy
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| Arnold Korff || Gustave
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| || U.S. soldiers
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| Pardon Us || || National Guardsmen || || 1931
|-
| rowspan="4"|Pack Up Your Troubles || Stan Laurel || Stan || rowspan="4"| || rowspan="4"| 1932
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| Oliver Hardy || Ollie
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| Don Dillaway || Eddie Smith
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| || U.S. soldiers
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| rowspan="3"|Heroes for Sale || Richard Barthelmess || Thomas Holmes || rowspan="3"| || rowspan="3"| 1933
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| Gordon Westcott || Roger Winston
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| || U.S. soldiers 
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| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer|| || Rebels || ||1935
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| China Seas || || British Sikh soldiers || || 1935
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|rowspan="3" | They Gave Him a Gun || Franchot Tone || James Davis || rowspan=3| || rowspan="3" | 1937
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| Spencer Tracy || Fred P. Willis
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| || U. S. soldiers
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| rowspan=3|Block-Heads || Stan Laurel || Stan || rowspan=3| With M1905 bayonets || rowspan=3| 1938
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| Oliver Hardy || Ollie
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| || U.S. soldiers
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| Each Dawn I Die |||| Army National Guard soldiers || || 1939
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| rowspan=3|The Roaring Twenties || James Cagney || Eddie Bartlett || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3|1939
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| Humphrey Bogart || George Hally 
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| Jeffrey Lynn || Lloyd
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| rowspan=3|The Fighting 69th || James Cagney || Pvt. Jerry Plunkett || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3|1940
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| Jeffrey Lynn || Sgt. Joyce Kilmer
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| || U.S. soldiers 
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| rowspan=6|Sergeant York || Gary Cooper || Sgt. Alvin C. York || rowspan=6| || rowspan=6|1941
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| George Tobias || Pvt. Michael T. "Pusher" Ross
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| David Bruce || Pvt. Bert Thomas
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| Jack Pennick || Cpl. William Cutting 
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| Lane Chandler || Cpl. Murray Savage
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| || American soldiers
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| Wake Island || || U.S. soldiers || || 1942
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| Air Force || || U.S. and Japanese soldiers || || 1943
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| Guadalcanal Diary || Richard Jaeckel || Private Johnny "Chicken" Anderson || || 1943
|-
| rowspan=2|Gung Ho! || || Marine Raiders || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1943
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| || Japanese soldiers
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| rowspan=2|Sahara || Louis Mercier || Jean 'Frenchie' Leroux || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1943
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| || German soldiers
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| rowspan=3|Bataan || Robert Taylor || Sgt. Bill Dane || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3|1943
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| Thomas Mitchell || Cpl. Jake Feingold
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| Barry Nelson || F.X. Matowski 
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| The Fighting Seabees || || CB recruit || || 1944
|-
| rowspan=2|They Were Expendable || John Wayne || Lt. JG 'Rusty' Ryan || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1945
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| || U.S. Navy sailors
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| The Story of G.I. Joe || || U.S. soldiers || || 1945
|-
|Back to Bataan|| || Philippine guerrilla fighters || ||1945
|-
| It's a Wonderful Life || Ward Bond || Bert the cop || || 1946
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| Tokyo Joe || || U.S. Army soldiers || || 1949
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| Viva Zapata! || || Mexican soldiers and rebels || || 1952
|-
| rowspan=2|Blowing Wild || Ward Bond || Dutch Peterson || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1953
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| || Local policemen
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| Battle Circus || || North Korean soldier || || 1953
|-
| rowspan=2|From Here to Eternity|| Montgomery Clift || Pvt. Robert Prewitt || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1953
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| Frank Sinatra || Pvt. Angelo Maggio
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| A Bullet For Joey || || U.S. Navy sailor || || 1955
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| China Gate|| || French Legionnaires || || 1957
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| The FBI Story || || South American soldier || || 1959
|-
| rowspan=4|They Came to Cordura || Van Heflin || John Chawk || rowspan=4| || rowspan=4|1959
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| Richard Conte || Milo Trubee
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| Tab Hunter || William Fowler
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| || Several U.S. Army soldiers
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| The Great Sioux Massacre || || Several U.S. Army soldiers || Anachronistic || 1965
|-
| The Dictator's Guns (L'Arme à gauche) || Leo Gordon || Morrison || || 1965
|-
| Tarzan and the Valley of Gold || || Vinero's soldiers || || 1966
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| The Professionals || || Mexican soldiers and rebels || || 1966
|-
| rowspan="3"|The Sand Pebbles|| Steve McQueen || Jake Holman || rowspan="3"| || rowspan="3"|1966
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| Richard Attenborough || Frenchy Burgoyne 
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| Joe Turkel || Seaman Bronson
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| The Vulture (Le Rapace) || || Mexican soldiers and police || || 1968
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| The Wild Bunch|| || Mexican and U.S. soldiers || || 1969
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| 100 Rifles|| || Mexican soldiers and Indians || || 1969
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| Two Mules for Sister Sara || || French soldiers || || 1970
|-
| Big Jake || || Texas Rangers || || 1971
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| The New Centurions || || L.A.P.D. Honor Guard || ||1972
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| Dillinger || || Vigilantes || || 1973
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|Midway|| || U.S. Marines || || 1976
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| The Muthers || || Pirates, Camp guards || || 1976
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| Go Tell the Spartans || || South Vietnamese militia || || 1978
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| The Police War (La Guerre des polices) || || French police || Scoped || 1979
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| 1941 || || U.S. Army soldiers || || 1976
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| The Big Red One ||Lee Marvin || Private Possum || || 1980
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| Lili Marleen || || American and British soldiers || || 1981
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|Ragtime || || Police officers || || 1981
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| rowspan="2"|Sahara|| Cliff Potts || String || rowspan="2"| || rowspan="2"|1983
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| Perry Lang || Andy
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| Born on the Fourth of July || || 4th of July celebration cadets || || 1989
|-
| Child's Play 3 || || Kent Military School students || || 1991
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| Chaplin || || U.S. soldiers || on the set of Shoulder Arms || 1992
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| Forrest Gump || Gary Sinise || Lt. Dan Taylor's ancestor || || 1994
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| Clear and Present Danger || || U.S. military honor guard || With metal parts chromed || 1994
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| Silent Hunter || || || Seen in Eli's cabin || 1995
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| Truman || Gary Sinise || Capt. Harry S. Truman || || 1995
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| Last Man Standing || || One of the men who massacres the truck convoy || || 1996
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| The Quest || || Dobbs' men and Turk smugglers || || 1996
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| Commander Hamilton|| || Libyan troops || || 1998
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| Pearl Harbor || || U.S. military personnel || || 2001
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|Windtalkers|| || United States Marines || ||2002
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| And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself || || Several revolutionaries || || 2003
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| Aviator || || Film crew || || 2004
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| The Lost City || || Cuban rebels || || 2005
|-
| rowspan="4"|Fido || Tim Blake Nelson || Mr. Theopolis || rowspan="4"| || rowspan="4"|2006
|-
| Henry Czerny || Johny Bottoms 
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| || US Army soldiers
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| || Zomcon guards
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| rowspan="2"|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button || Jacob Tolano || Martin Gateau || rowspan="2"| || rowspan="2"|2008
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| || U.S. Army soldiers
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|An American Carol|| || Ghost of World War I-era troops || ||2008
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| The Children of Huang Shi || || Chinese Policemen and soldiers || || 2008
|-
| rowspan="3"|Public Enemies || || U.S. Army soldiers || rowspan="3"| || rowspan="3"|2009
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| || Prison guards
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| || Vigilante 
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| rowspan="2"|Shutter Island || Leonardo DiCaprio || U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels || rowspan="2"| || rowspan="2"|2009
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| || Prison Guards
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| Spoils of War || || US Marines || Archive footage || 2009
|-
| rowspan="4"|Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan) || Peter Ho || Mu Liangfeng || rowspan="4"| || rowspan="4"|2011
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| Tony Leung Ka Fai || Capt. Zhang Menzi
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| Mickey He || Xiao Wu
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| || Chinese military snipers 
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|Back to 1942|| || Chinese troops || ||2012
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| The Silent Mountain || || Austro-Hungarian and Italian soldiers || || 2014
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|Live by Night|| || Joe Coughlin's men || ||2016
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===Television===
|-
| The Three Stooges || Curly Howard || Curly || Episode "Three Pests in a Mess" || 1945
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| rowspan=2|The Man from U.N.C.L.E. || Robert Vaughn || Napoleon Solo || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2| 1964-1968
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| || Various characters 
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| Tales from the Crypt||Kirk Douglas || General Kalthrob || episode: "Yellow" (S3E14) || 1991
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| The Sopranos || Tony Sirico || Paulie || "House Arrest" (2.11) || 1999-2007
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| rowspan=2|Doctor Who || Hugh Quarshie || Solomon || "Daleks iin Manhattan" || rowspan=2| 2005 - ????
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| || Hooverville citizens || "Daleks in Manhattan"
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| Bonnie and Clyde || || A police officer ||scoped || 2013
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|Watchmen||Alexis Louder||The Mother||"It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" (S01E01)||2019
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|1923||||US Army soldiers||"1923" (S1E01)|| 2022
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===Video Games===
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| Forgotten Hope || || || || 2003
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| Medal of Honor: Rising Sun || "Springfield '03" || || M1903/A5 || 2003
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| Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault || "Springfield M1903A5" || || M1903/A5 || 2004
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| Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth || || || || 2005
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| 7554 || || || || 2011
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|State of Decay||"Model 1903" |||| added in Lifeline DLC (2014) || 2013
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| Verdun || "Model 1903 Springfield" || || || 2015
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| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades || || || || 2016
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| Battlefield 1 || "M1903" || || || 2016
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| Call of Duty: WWII || "M1903" || || || 2017
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| rowspan=3|Enlisted || "M1903 Springfield" || with M1905 bayonet || M1903 Mk 1 || rowspan=3| 2021
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| "M1903 with grenade launcher" || with M1 grenade launcher ||M1903 Mk 1
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| "Springfield M1903 Air Service" ||||Air Service model
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| Beyond The Wire || "Springfield M1903" |||| Warner & Swasey Sniper configuration || 2022
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===Animation===
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| The Iron Giant || US Army soldiers || || 1999
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==M1903A1 Springfield==
thumb|right|450px|A pair of M1903A1 Springfield sniper rifles with 7.8x Unertl scopes - .30-06 Springfield. The guns pictured here were the actual rifles used in Letters from Iwo Jima (one is primary, the other is a back-up), and the rifle was fired by Master Sergeant Tom Minder, one of the technical advisors, in the film.
The M1903A1 Springfield was introduced in 1929, with the only alteration being the C-type pistol-grip stock. The US Marine Corps utilized the M1903A1 with a scope added as their standard sniper rifle during World War II.
===Film===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Date
White Christmas 	 	U.S. Army soldiers 	 	1954
China Gate 	 	Legionnaires 	 	1957
I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) 	 	Cuban government soldiers and guerrillas	 	1964
The Born Losers 	Tom Laughlin 	Billy Jack 	 	1967
The Born Losers 	Stuart Lancaster	Sheriff Harvey 	 	1967
The Vulture (Le Rapace) 	 	Mexican soldiers and police 	May be A3 modification 	1968
Blastfighter 	 	A henchman 	 	1984
Best Seller 	Brian Dennehy 	Dennis Meechum 	with M82 scope 	1987
JFK 	 	A killer 	with Unertl 8x scope 	1991
The Thin Red Line 	Mickey Rourke 	A sniper 	Deleted scene; with a 7.8x Unertl scope	1998
Letters from Iwo Jima 	MSgt. Tom Minder	US Marine sniper 	with 7.8x Unertl scope 	2006
The Children of Huang Shi 	 	Chinese soldiers 	 	2008
Let the Bullets Fly 	 	Henchmen 	 	2010
Captain America: The First Avenger	Sebastian Stan 	Sgt. James "Bucky" Barnes 	Deleted scene; with 7.8x Unertl scope 	2011
The Highwaymen 	Kevin Costner 	Frank Hamer 	car arsenal 	2019
===Television===
Title 	Actor	Character 	Note / Episode 	Date
The Pacific	 	US Marine Sniper	with 7.8x Unertl scope	2010
===Video Game===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Mods 	Notation 	Release Date
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven 	 	 	 	2002
Hidden & Dangerous 2 	"Springfield" 	 	standard and with 7.8x Unertl scope	2003
Forgotten Hope 2 	 	 	 	2007
Medal of Honor: Airborne 	"Springfield" 	 	 	2007
Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 	"Springfield M1903A1" 	 	Added with the v9.8.0 update (2020)	2008
Call of Duty: World at War 	"Springfield" 	 	 	2008
Battlefield: 1943 	 	 	 	2009
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm 	 	 	 	2013
Battlefield Hardline 	 	 	 	2015
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades	 	 	 	2016
Heroes & Generals 	"Springfield M1903" 	unscoped and with M84/Unertl scopes	 	2016
Mafia III 	 	 	 	2016
Raid: World War II 	"Springfield M1903 Rifle" 	 	 	2017
Mafia: Definitive Edition 	 	 	 	2020
Enlisted 	"Springfield M1903A1 USMC"	with M1905 bayonet 	USMC variant with front sight hood 	2021
Enlisted 	"Springfield M1903A1" 	with Unertl scope 	 	2021
==M1903A3 Springfield==
thumb|right|450px|An M1903A3 Rifle manufactured by Remington Arms for use during World War II. Note the C-type pistol-grip stock - .30-06 Springfield
Anticipation of American involvement in World War II lead to the US War Department contracting with Remington Arms and Smith-Corona Typewriter Company to produce M1903 rifles to supplement production of the M1 Garand. Remington began production at serial #3,000,000 in September 1941 using old tooling from Rock Island Arsenal put in storage in 1919. As the older tooling wore out, Remington replaced unnecessary milled parts with stamped replacements, which helped to simplify and speed up production, and also improved the design by replacing the original rear sight with a peep sight on the receiver bridge. By serial #3,330,000 the design had been modified so much that it was decided to give the model a new designation, United States Rifle, Caliber .30, Model of 1903-A3. In October 1942 Smith-Corona began production of the M1903A3 in Syracuse, New York. Smith-Corona rifles were produced using a number of subcontractors, primarily barrels made by High-Standard Manufacturing and Savage Arms. Production of the M1903A3 ended February 12, 1944 when production of M1 Garand rifles was deemed sufficient for the war effort.
The M1903A3 was extensively used by Allied forces in World War II; it was the primary battle rifle of the 1st Brazilian Infantry Division in Italy, and was extensively used by Free French forces after August 1943. It would see action with postwar French forces in Indochina and Algeria. While the basic M1903 and the M1903A1 were distinguished by the use of either a straight-grip stock or a C-type pistol-grip stock, both stock types were used interchangeably in the M1903A3 without any change in designation.
===Film===
|-
| The Fighting Seabees || || US Marine and CB members || || 1944
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| The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms || || National Guard soldiers || || 1953
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| Never So Few || || Burmese and american soldiers || || 1959
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| Battle of the Bulge || || U.S. Army Soldiers || || 1965
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| rowspan=3 | The Wild Bunch || Ben Johnson || Tector || rowspan=3 | || rowspan=3 | 1969
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| Strother Martin || Coffer
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| || U.S. Army and Mexican soldiers
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| rowspan=3|Five for Hell || Aldo Canti || Nick Amadori || rowspan=3| || rowspan=3|1969
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| Luciano Rossi || Johnny White
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| || US Army soldiers
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| Badlands || || Police officer || || 1973
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| Dillinger || || U.S. Army soldiers || || 1973
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| Ironweed || Jared Swartout || U.S. Army officer || || 1987
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| rowspan=3 | Return from the River Kwai || || Japanese soldiers || rowspan=3 | || rowspan=3 | 1989
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| || Miao tribesmen
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| || former Allied POWs
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| Courage Under Fire || || U.S. Army soldiers || With metal parts chromed || 1996
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| The Scoundrel's Wife || || U.S. Coast Guard sailors || || 2002
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| An American Carol || || Ghost of World War I-era troops || || 2008
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| Shutter Island || || Shutter Island prison guards || || 2010
|-
| rowspan=7 | Gallipoli: End of the Road || Gürkan Uygun || Mushin || rowspan=7 | Standing in for Turkish M1903 Mauser || rowspan=7 | 2013
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| Umut Kurt || Hasan
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| Mehmetcan Diper || Eyüp
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| Inanç Koçak || Kostas 
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| Emir Çiçek || Sgt. Enver Çavuş
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| Fikret Yildirim Urag || Capt. Ibrahim Adil
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| || Turkish soldiers 
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| Black Widow|| ||Black Widows recruits ||"Parade" rifle || 2021
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|}
===Television===
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| rowspan=6 | The Pacific || Keith Nobbs || PFC Wilbur 'Runner' Conley || rowspan=6 | || rowspan=6 | 2010
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| Joshua Bitton || Sgt. J.P. Morgan
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| Josh Helman || Lew 'Chuckler' Juergens
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| Tom Budge || PFC Ronnie Gibson
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| Sam Parsonson || Pvt. William LaPointe
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| || US Marines
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| Fallout - Season 1 || Uncredited || NCR Radio Operator || "The Beginning" (S1E08) ||2024
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|}
===Video Game===
|-
| Forgotten Hope 2 || "M1903A3" || Can use a bayonet and rifle grenades || || 2007
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| Death to Spies || || || || 2007
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| Death to Spies: Moment of Truth || || || || 2009
|-
| World War II Online: Battleground Europe || || || Released with 1.34 update || 2011
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| World of Guns: Gun Disassembly || Springfield M1903 A3 ||scope || || 2014
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| Day of Infamy || || || || 2017
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| Squad 44: Letters From The Front || || || || 2018
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| rowspan=2|Enlisted || || without scope || M1903A3 || rowspan=2| 2021
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|"Springfield M1903A3"|| with Unertl scope ||
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| Military Conflict: Vietnam || || || || 2022
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| Resident Evil 4 (2023 VG) || SR M1903 || || Adding scopes turns it into the M1903A4 variant || 2023
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===Animation===
|-
| rowspan=3 | Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero || Robert Conroy || rowspan="3" | || rowspan=3 | 2018
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| Sgt. Casburn
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| U.S. and French soldiers
|-
|}
==M1903A4 Springfield==
The M1903A4 is an adaptation of the M1903A3 for sniper use, with the iron sights removed and a low-mounted scope in their place. The M1903A4 was used only by the US Army during World War II, as the Marines preferred their own modified M1903A1 design.
===Film===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Date
Saving Private Ryan 	Barry Pepper	Pvt. Daniel Jackson 	 	1998
Tae Guk Gi 	 	South Korean soldier	With scope removed	2004
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed	 	US paratrooper 	 	2012
Overlord 	John Magaro 	PFC Tibbet 	 	2018
===Video Games===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Mods 	Notation 	Release Date
Medal of Honor 	 	 	 	1999
Commandos 2: Men of Courage 	"M1903 .30-06" 	 	 	2001
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault 	 	 	 	2002
Medal of Honor: Frontline 	 	 	 	2002
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin 	"Allied Sniper Rifle"	 	 	2003
Call of Duty 	"Springfield" 	 	 	2003
Forgotten Hope 	 	 	 	2003
Day of Defeat 	 	With M82 scope 	 	2004
Call of Duty: Finest Hour 	"Springfield" 	 	 	2004
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 	 	 	 	2005
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One 	"Springfield" 	 	 	2005
Call of Duty 2 	 	 	with M84 scope 	2005
Resident Evil 4 	 	With upgradable scope	Inaccurately chambered in .223 Remington 	2005
Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 	 	With M84 scope 	 	2006
Company of Heroes 	"1903 Rifle" 	 	 	2006
Call of Duty 3 	"Springfield" 	 	 	2006
Forgotten Hope 2 	 	 	With Model 330 Weaver scope 	2007
Hour of Victory 	 	 	 	2007
Death to Spies 	 	 	 	2007
Far Cry 2 	 	 	Incorrectly shown loaded with a stripper clip inserted into the bottom of the weapon	2008
Death to Spies: Moment of Truth 	 	 	 	2009
Day of Defeat: Source 	 	 	 	2010
World War II Online: Battleground Europe	 	 	released with 1.34 update 	2011
Sniper Elite V2 	 	 	 	2012
Sniper Elite III 	 	 	"Patriot Weapons Pack" DLC 	2014
The Walking Dead: Michonne 	 	 	incorrectly depicted with a protruding magazine 	2016
Sniper Elite 4 	 	 	 	2017
Squad 44: Letters From The Front 	 	 	 	2018
State of Decay 2 	 	 	 	2018
Enlisted 	"Springfield M1903A4"	 	With Weaver Model 330 scope 	2021
Sniper Elite 5 	 	 	 	2022
Military Conflict: Vietnam 	 	 	 	2022
Resident Evil 4 (2023 VG) 	SR M1903 	with various scopes 	Removing scopes turns it into the M1903A3 variant 	2023
===Anime===
Title 	Character 	Note	Date
Mayoi Neko Overrun!	 	 	2010
Baccano! 	Lemure sniper	 	2007
Hanasaku Iroha 	 	 	2011
==Sporterized M1903 Springfield==
The M1903 and its descendants have long been popular as the basis for custom hunting/target rifles. Famous gunsmith Reginald F. Sedgely and the sporting house of Griffin & Howe (in business since 1923) are two of the most well known makers not to mention the thousands of self-taught hobbyists working in their basements and garages over the past one hundred years.
===Film===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Date
Block-Heads 	 	 	Scoped sporter 	1938
High Sierra 	Frank Cordell 	Slim 	scoped sporter 	1941
The Macomber Affair 	Gregory Peck 	Robert Wilson 	 	1947
The Macomber Affair 	Robert Preston 	Francis Macomber 	 	1947
His Kind of Woman 	Vincent Price 	Mark Cardigan 	Griffin & Howe 	1951
His Kind of Woman 	Alberto Morin 	Lt. Rodriguez 	Griffin & Howe 	1951
His Kind of Woman 	 	Mexican policemen 	Griffin & Howe 	1951
The Dictator's Guns (L'Arme à gauche)	Leo Gordon 	Morrison 	 	1965
A Boy and His Dog 	Don Johnson 	Vic 	Customized with Mannlicher Schönauer Carbine (Stutzen) stock	1975
Black Sunday 	Robert Shaw 	Maj. David Kabakov	Scoped 	1977
Breaker! Breaker! 	Dan Vandegrift 	Wilfred 	Griffin & Howe? 	1977
The Howling 	 	Colony Resident 	Griffin & Howe 	1981
Blue Desert 	Philip Baker Hall	Joe 	Scoped 	1991
The Hunting Party 	Branko Smiljanic 	Nine Fingered Man 	scoped sporter 	2007
The Book of Eli 	 	Town guard 	Same sporterized rifle as used in A Boy and His Dog (1975) 	2010
===Television===
Show Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note / Episode 	Air Date
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1	Michael St. Clair 	James 	"The Gazebo in the Maze Affair" (S1E27) 	1965
The Walking Dead - Season 3 	Scott Wilson 	Hershel Greene 	Scoped; "Seed" (S3E01) 	2012-2013
The Walking Dead - Season 3 	Lauren Cohan 	Maggie Greene 	Scoped; "I Ain't a Judas" (S3E11), "Arrow on the Doorpost" (S3E13), "This Sorrowful Life" (S3E15)	2012-2013
The Walking Dead - Season 4 	Lauren Cohan 	Maggie Rhee 	Scoped; "Infected" (S4E02) 	2013
The Walking Dead - Season 4 	Rozalyn Yother Mattocks	Martinez's camp survivor	Scoped; "Too Far Gone" (S4E08) 	2013
The Walking Dead - Season 5 	 	 	Scoped, seen in armory; "Forget" (S5E13) 	2015
The Walking Dead - Season 6 	 	 	Scoped, seen in armory; "JSS" (S6E02) 	2015
== Pedersen Device ==
The Pedersen Device is an attachment for the M1903 Springfield developed during World War I, converting the rifle into semi-automatic pistol cartridge weapon, designated US Automatic Pistol, Caliber .30, Model of 1918 by the Ordnance Department. Functionally, the Pedersen Device is a very small and simple top loading, blowback-operated pistol. M1903 Springfields were modified with additional left-facing pistol-caliber ejection port and other receiver modifications to accommodate for the device, and were designated US Rifle, Cal. .30, Model of M1903, Mark I. It is attached by removing the turnbolt and inserting the device. It uses the rifle's trigger group and uses 40-round magazines, inserted 45-degrees diagonally from the right.
The device was designed by Remington Arms employee John Pedersen prior to US entry into WWI. After US entry into WWI, the Army ordered 133,450 devices and 800,000,000 cartridges for the 1919 Spring Offensive. Production began in 1918, but the war ended before they reached Europe. The production contract was terminated on March 1, 1919, after 65,000 devices, 1.6 million magazines, 65 million cartridges and 101,775 modified Springfield rifles were produced. They were subsequently placed in storage and declared surplus in 1931. Nearly all were destroyed in a giant bonfire because the Ordnance Department didn't want to pay for the cost of storage. An estimated 60-100 Pedersen devices survive today, some of which have fire damage as they were surreptitiously rescued from the bonfire as souvenirs. Most Mark I rifles converted for the Pedersen device were converted back to the original standard in the 1930s, with the only remaining sign of their conversion being a receiver cutout and a Mark I rollmark.
Mk.II and Mk.III prototypes were designed for the M1917 Enfield and U.S. Rifle, 7.62 mm, Model of 1916 (a Remington-produced version of the Russian Mosin Nagant that were never delivered to Russia). Neither went into production.
===Video Games===
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| Battlefield 1 || "M1903 Experimental" || || || 2016
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| Enlisted || "M1903 Springfield (Pedersen device)" || || || 2021
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