I have not seen one but the very famous Danish Sirius Patrol used a modified version of the 1917. Why I have no idea. Don't get me wrong, I love the gun but the bolt is not very slick and seems an odd choice when a good M98 Mauser would have worked (my opinion) better.
Regardless they did modify the sights on them and used them until pretty recently (a check and it turns out they are still using them and plan on continue using them, so in a year they will be in the 100 years old vicinity)
They also mfg their own barrels (they received 38,000 from Canada during a post WWII rifle short and 13k from Norway.
Ferris thinks maybe 6 to 7000 came back to the US, I don't think they shipped anything other than standard ones back.
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