Enfield P14 - Where to Look for Parts

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Happy New Year fellow forum members.

I recently inherited a Parker Hale sporter with an Enfield P14 action. The original box says model z29. I am trying to find out more information about this model and where the action was made (I assume Vickers, since the receiver is stamped "Made in England".) I would also like to find out where I can get parts for it (for some reason the magazine box is missing.) Once I have it all together I want to take it out to the range and see how accurate it is. From reading in the forum and online it looks like the P14 is more accurate than the SMLE it was intended to replace.

Thanks in advance.
 
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Without pictures, all I can tell you is that Pattern 1914 rifles were produced at Winchester, Remington, and Eddystone in the US. Each factory stamped it's rifles with their own initials (W, RE, ERA) and parts (W, R, E).
 
Have to see it to see how much sporterizing has been done. Is the mag still full size or shortened? Does the front of the trigger guard assembly where the front guard screw goes through have a dogleg, or is it flat?
 
You will want to try and find a mag box from the same maker as there was slight manufacturing differences among the makers and I think it was Eddystone who even switched their mag design mid production (maybe that was only with the M1917).

BTW, the mag box is one of the few parts that is not interchangeable between the P14 and P17 (M1917) rifles, even among the same manufacturers as the P14 one has ribs inside to keep the rimmed .303 from flopping about as the rifle was originally designed for a rimless .276 (7mm) experimental Hi velocity magnum class cartridge (165gr bullet @ over 2800fps compared to a 150gr .30-06 of the same period only went 2700fps) that continued development was later dropped because of WW1 and switched to .303 as their factories were already set up for and mass producing it.
 
Thanks for the helpful replies thus far. I am going to post some pics asap including some of the stampings to help ID the item.
 
p14 very nice sporter can not be restored to military spec ,cant from the pics which of the 3 manfactures made it .Beautiful sporter and should be a good shooter
 
BSA conversion of a P14 Eddystone. Looks to be restocked. Very nice. When bolt is pulled back is there a follower and spring? Should be no problem coming up with a mag box. Ron
 
Thanks Ron. The collective wisdow of this forum is incredible.

There is a spring and follower. I only realized the mag box was missing when I tried to load some snap caps and could not for the life of me get them to feed correctly.

Any suggestions where to find a box? I found many in the US but none ship to Canada.
 
Click on the Marstar banner at the top of the page. $35.00 for a P-14 mag box. If you have trouble finding it on their site PM me and I will walk you through it.
 
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