Funny one would expect to find a decent shape 17 enfield, not so much the springfield, but really they are only 31 years apart, sortta like the 06 calibered 03s vs the Garand. It just seems a lot bigger gap between the black powder horse riding Indian wars and the machine gun shooting airplane flying WWI than the smokeless powder pointy bullet shooting 30-06 03 rifle and the semi auto shooting 30-06 garand.
Perhaps it is because Dad was there for WWII, Grand Pa for WWI but Great Grand Pa was there during the IW period.
In any case both really look outstanding.