My Brother-in-Law,  is a retired CTRCM. Would love to see the insignia on this jumper. 

There's no doubt the name on the stock is Kiplinger.  During the interwar period and WWII, thousands of M1903 rifles were assigned to State Guard units, military academies, or university ROTC programs. These institutions frequently used larger, non-standard alphanumeric stamping patterns to track their hardware. The stock markings, "L 3002" and "G 3083" are not factory manufacturing marks or standard arsenal rebuild codes.  Instead I'm just guessing it might be a letter that desginates a specific company, troop, or department (e.g., Company L and Company G), while the four-digit number matches the rifle to a specific soldier, rack position, or inventory ledger. It's possible the reason for these two unit markings (if that's what they are) might be that the "L" stamp was likely applied first by one unit. When the rifle was reassigned to a different unit (Company G), the armorers stamped the new designation nearby rather than sanding down the original wood. Obviously, all this is conjecture on my part and it's just a WAG, but it's my guess.  Personally, I don't think we'll ever know which Kiplinger this rifle belonged.  Carry on...

Very cool!! Thank you Mr. Flick!!

Same here; I collect both and have been doing it about 40 years.............

Sounds like you have lots of experience. I’ve been collecting for about 5-6 years now and have only been collecting WWII Militaria for about 3-4 years. Before that I collected Vietnam Era Items.

That's pretty much the mainstay of my stuff too. Amazingly, I have an original uniform that is a 42S tunic that actually fits my fat rump, and I found some insanely wide trousers (like 44 or 46 waist) and had them taken up and they fit as well; at least as of about 10 years ago. Also found original shoes that fit too. I used to be part of the WWII AAF Living History Group out of Meacham Airport in Ft. Worth. Got to fly in Chuckie (the B-17G) when it was there many years ago.............

I collect uniforms and headgear mainly. There’s lots of material on AAF uniforms and gear on here.

Bottom line, by the time nylon gear came around (1967), the BAR was no longer being used...........I think this is something that somebody made up on their own. There's no piece of military gear, standard or experimental, that doesn't have an ink stamp nomenclature on it................

I caught the second half of a 1965 episode of the old Combat! TV show last night. I wish I had seen it from the beginning. It concerned the squad trying to rescue a wounded US paratrooper hanging from a church steeple. It was not supposed to be in St Mere Eglise, but I’m going to hang out there and guess that is where they got the idea from. mikie

Nice rifle.     Is it your belief that the soldier's last name was Kiplinger?  There were a number of soldiers with that last name who served in WW1, according to Ancestry draft records.  Without more it would be hard to pin down any particular soldier to this rifle.   The stamped numbers hold no meaning for me.  They are unusual in their location and do not appear to be a unit or property marking .  Perhaps they are numbers associated with the soldier (or former soldier as Mr. Kiplinger might have bought this rifle after the end of the war.)   I wish I could be more help but for me there just isn't enough there to make a connection for you.  Good luck.   Regards, Charlie