Originally Posted by
Sav22
The safety/trigger springs should be interchangeable between the two but I have had some trouble with some but these were parts acquired loose so they may have not worked well to begin with, and I do not have they guns they came from to determine the vintage. Hammers should be the same. The bolts from a 1914 will fit in a 1903, the bolt design changed a few times so you must match the parts to the bolt, late 1903's & 1914's had different firing pins and extractors than in the early bolts, and there are the firing pin design was changed before the extractor so you will that variation. Early extractors are almost impossible to find, do not buy a bolt requiring one of them and expect to find one, the later extractors seemed to never break, at least I have never seen a broken or missing one. There are a number of minor design changes that were made during the run of the 1903, 1909, 1912 & 1914, these are yet to be documented well, at this time I am doing the best I can from memory, which often fails me.
PS, I look at this site very sporadically, especially in the summer because there seem to be little action - don't expect an answer very fast, so be polite & show some patience.
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