View Full Version : I put my wonderful Eddystone 1917 up for sale
I loved that rifle but I am kind of through with shooting. This is the one that came back from Denmark by way of Britain or Canada. It's been fun to shoot (very accurate) and learn about. I got some good links to information here.
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Lyman has one too with some cool history.
About the nicest I've seen, especially that wood.
You're going to miss it.
nice piece of walnut on that one,
did you put it on the Borker, or ?
Vern Humphrey
09-21-2022, 09:39
What do you want for it?
What do you want for it?
It's on auction
Johnny P
09-21-2022, 11:27
119,000 of the Model 1917's were sent to England under Lend-Lease. Red band was common on the U.S. rifles (.30-06) sent to England; the 1903, 1917, and M1 Rifle.
The military would normally reject burl walnut, but accept fiddleback. That stock must have been close enough to fiddleback that it went through. Beautiful piece of wood.
If you love it that much you should keep it.
I have two rifles that I love that I'll never sell, no matter what.
One hangs on the wall, the other sleeps in the safe.
Re: OP. Two questions. (1) Cannot make out what is the blade on the front sight. Is this a standard USGI item? (2) What auction site? Sincerely. bruce.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/947962332
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In the old days, live auctions got chewed over regularly around here. Aware of no rules against it, especially under the circumstances.
Re: OP. Two questions. (1) Cannot make out what is the blade on the front sight. Is this a standard USGI item? (2) What auction site? Sincerely. bruce.
as he mentions in the listing, the front sight is a Danish replacement,
as mentioned, they have a very interesting history,
a good thread here
and the rifle pictured (Remington) in post #13 is sitting in my safe,
https://www.gunboards.com/threads/us-model-1917-danish-home-guard-sirius-dog-sled-patrol-rifle.1191437/
119,000 of the Model 1917's were sent to England under Lend-Lease. Red band was common on the U.S. rifles (.30-06) sent to England; the 1903, 1917, and M1 Rifle.
The military would normally reject burl walnut, but accept fiddleback. That stock must have been close enough to fiddleback that it went through. Beautiful piece of wood.
In peacetime stocks were all straight grain as they were less likely to break when used in close combat for that butt stroke but war time causes expediency issues. The Brits in WW I quickly went from mandating air dried walnut for rifle stocks to accepting kiln dried walnut. Got to have that wood. I owned an M1903A1 (Keystone stock) put together from parts in WWII. The stock has some nice figure that I'm pretty sure would have been rejected in peace time. I can definitely see that stock getting through, in say, 1941 or '42.
Beautiful rifle, beautiful wood.
I have 6, some are P14s, and others are M1917s, between them one of the P14s is a 308 Norma Mag and another is a 30/06; the only chamber I do not have is a 303.
I have one M1917 that was voted the ugliest, I was thinking if it was as bad as the gun forms described it I could use it for parts. I won the bid for 120.00$. After the rifle arrived, I could not believe the rifle was built by someone that did not have a clue, so I loaded some ammo and headed for the range. The rifle tested out as a most accurate rifle, so I applied the 'leaver policy'. And then there was the rifle I got from a member on the Firing Line forum. That rifle had and still has a long chamber that is .002" longer than a field reject length gage, for me that was expected based on all of the information available.
Long chamber: from the datum to the bolt face, that rifle left the arsenal with .016" clearance. I checked the length of the chamber first and then loaded ammo for it that had .002" clearance, a most accurate rifle.
I have 6 very heavy barrels for the Enfield Ps and M that were machine gun barrels chambered to 308/7.62 and 8MM chambered to 8MM Winchesters, there is a chance I will never get around to finish them.
F. Guffey
jon_norstog
09-21-2022, 05:35
Is the flaming bomb a sign that it is a National Match barrel?
Is the flaming bomb a sign that it is a National Match barrel?
M1917's were not used in the National Match programs, so no parts were NM,
the flaming bomb on the side was put on all of them for the US
Johnny P
09-21-2022, 06:45
Burl wood was not only heavier but more brittle, while there was no difference in straight and fiddleback. The best cuts came from the center of the log, where the fiddleback might be, and the slab cuts from the edge of the log which were more prone to warping.
The stock on the left is a Keystone replacement stock (has a reflection), the middle stock a Remington 03-A3, and on the right an M1 Rifle stock.
https://i.postimg.cc/Kz4ZhHyT/FBstocks.jpg
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