The Springfield M1903 was an American magazine-fed, bolt-action, .30-caliber rifle. It was adopted as a United States military service rifle on June 19th 1903, and used during World War I and the years that followed. Although it was replaced as the standard infantry rifle by the Garand M1 rifle in 1936, the Springfield M1903 remained in service as a sniper rifle during World War II, the Korean War, and the early stages of the Vietnam War.
The Springfield M1903 not only replaced the Krag M1898 rifle, but also the Lee Model 1895 and the Remington-Lee M1885 used by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. After having disassembled and carefully studied several examples of the Mauser Model 93 rifle captured during the Spanish-American War, the War Department combined features of both the U.S. Krag M1898, and the Mauser Model 93 rifle, to produce the new U.S. Springfield Rifle, Model 1903. In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt objected to the design of the rod-type bayonet used as being too flimsy for combat. Consequently all the rifles to that point had to be re-tooled for a knife-type bayonet, called the M1905. A new improved sight was also added.
Springfield M1903 Rifle
[...] M1 Garand was a World War II US semi-automatic rifle. Designed to replace the bolt-action rifle M1903 Springfield, the M1 was the first semi-automatic rifle to be widely adopted as the standard infantry fire arm. [...]