I got my Greek return '03 last winter and it turned out to be a beauty, yes it was a rebuild by Remington before being shipped to Greece...perhaps during or after WW2. It's manufacture date was 1927...it's quite possible mine was never used after the rebuild. Went to greece and came back unopened in the wrap and loaded with cosmo...but underneath all that was a rifle in near new condition. Re-parked reciever, with blued barrel and small parts, pristine bore, no wear on any of the knurled knobs, or on the blued bolt. The scant stock has the Remington rebuild marks on the wood. Beautiful black walnut had only slight storage dings. All the heardware matches the books that cover rebuilt rifles. it shoots like a fine commercial sporter, 1 1/2 " groups with good Wnchester white box 148 grain ball at 100 yeard...easy...w/open sites. (once you figure out how to use them) All and all I feel quite lucky I had a friend who went down to the CMP and picked one out for me, and he knows a good rifle when he sees one. Whats left down there? Don't know. Also I have shot numerous "low number" '03's with no trouble whatsoever, just keep to standard loadings. The government went to GREAT legnths to see that all the bad recievers were taken out of service, and all the low numbers were used in WW2 with a good record of service.