With the magazine close to the barrel the early magazine end had some the knurling ground off for clearance, this was done on all examples I've seen. The early magazine tubes had a simple pin and L shaped slot design and the tube was very close to the barrel with almost no gap, they later used a spring loaded clip to hold the inner magazine tube in, this required the tube being moved farther from the barrel. The early bolts had the same extractors as the earlier Model 1903’s which were mounted in a groove in the top of the bolt and were not visible through the ejection port, that was changed to a stronger design mounted on the right side of the bolt that showed through the ejection port. I would be interested in some features of your rifle, it falls into a range I have little data on and there were a few design changes made early in production which your gun may or may not have. The serial numbers started with 1000 so yours is an early gun, putting it in the first or second year of production, but I don't know just when production started. If you really want some exact information you could get a letter from the Cody Museum, there was some information on doing that posted recently - costs $75.
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