A P-14 quandary...

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I picked up this p-14 the other day... some scofflaw chopped the barrel. He did a good job as the cut is nice and he even crowned it but destroyed the rifle imho. I’m not knowledgeable on these guns so I thought I would post it here and see what people think I should do...
Try to find a barrel, front sight and rear sight.
Part it out on the ee.
Keep it as the cute sporter she already is...


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Sell it or parts gun.

The rear sight is likely gone, they were numbered to match the barrel and receiver serial numbers. The rear sight ears are likely drilled and tapped.

The good new is the stock alone holds the most valve for a restoration of a better condition rifle.

While you probably can find the front and rear sight at a decent price. The barrel would cost more than a good condition uncut p14
 
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Might be fun to play with if you can find an old glossy steel tube scope with a german no1 reticle... sort of an “ersatz sniper rifle”.
Restoration wise you’ll end up spending $500 to restore a $450 rifle... it’ll still be a non matching restored sporter when you’re done. Play with it or part it out is my advice.
 
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Dyspnea said:
Sell it or parts gun.

The rear sight is likely gone, they were numbered to match the barrel and receiver serial numbers. The rear sight ears are likely drilled and tapped.

The good new is the stock alone holds the most valve for a restoration of a better condition rifle.

While you probably can find the front and rear sight at a decent price. The barrel would cost more than a good condition uncut p14
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Does the stock hold interest for people? I thought because it’s a DP guys wouldn’t want it...
BlackPowderBurner said:
Might be fun to play with if you can find an old glossy steel tube scooe with a german no1 reticle... sort of an “ersatz sniper rifle”.
Restoration wise you’ll end up spending $500 to restore a $450 rifle... it’ll still be a non matching restored sporter when you’re done. Play with it or part it out is my advice.
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Interesting ideas. Thanks.
 
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Does the stock hold interest for people? I thought because it’s a DP guys wouldn’t want it...
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A few year ago I paid $200 (might have been 3) to restore my p14, but that rifle was uncut and all matching numbers. I had a hell of a time finding a stock for it.
 
It's a Mk 1 which is cool. You could find a front sight and cut back the wood and make a fraudulent Pattern 14 carbine. A cool fun shooter, but cutting an original stock would be heresy to some.
 
Well, as a collector piece is too far gone probably. Why not keep going and do a decent job of sporterising it?

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Your stock and handguard have been demilled (hole drilled through them at the front of the receiver),which greatly reduce their value, even though they appear to be otherwise unmolested. I purchased a demilled stock and handguard for $40.00 at a gun show last fall, and I am in the market for another one. As I recall, a similarly priced and demilled one recently showed up on the EE. So YES the stock does hold interest to restorers. The front and middle bands and various other bits would also be of interest if they have not been tampered with. Unfortunately, the cut bbl and receiver now hold little value in my opinion.
 
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the easy thing to do, is find a sporter with a good barrel ,and have a gunsmith switch barrels.
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Not so easy at all. For years I've been hearing that the P14/P17's are a true bugger to get the barrels out of. They were spun in with a flywheel, they're really in there.

To remove them you have to make a relief cut with a lathe. Getting a good barrel is a very tall order.

Maybe sell the wood set off and use a sporterized stock for this barrel shortened rifle.

As was mentioned, finding a forend for a P14 is not easy.

Too bad though that it's DP marked, but you may still find a taker.

Or buy a sporterized P14 and swap the parts yourself.
 
There's a complete action with matching receiver, bolt, rear sight and barrel in good shape for sale at my club. I think he is asking $170. I have fired this gun with different stock set ups before and even with a sporterized stock it is still a 1 moa rifle @ 100 metres. I say buy that and throw the stock on it. If you want to go that route, PM me for an introduction.
 
cantom said:
Not so easy at all. For years I've been hearing that the P14/P17's are a true bugger to get the barrels out of. They were spun in with a flywheel, they're really in there.

To remove them you have to make a relief cut with a lathe. Getting a good barrel is a very tall order.

Maybe sell the wood set off and use a sporterized stock for this barrel shortened rifle.

As was mentioned, finding a forend for a P14 is not easy.

Too bad though that it's DP marked, but you may still find a taker.

Or buy a sporterized P14 and swap the parts yourself.
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thats why I said have a gunsmith do it ,as a proper gunsmith will have the proper tools to do it with out destroying it . If they can't, maybe they should take down the gunsmith sign.
 
If you want it to look original find another action and swap out the stock and parts,The wood is from a rifle that had the receiver drilled trough making it a DP rifle .This was done to p14 rifles that ended up in India for some reason .
 
Watch for another one they show up quite often as sporterized but the barrel has not been cut, they are usually around a couple hundred bucks give or take. Take the stock that you now have and replace the one on the good one with the uncut barrel and put the sporter on the one you have now. Presto you now have a restored p-14 and a sporter from the cut one. These are usually quite accurate shooters so you could probably sell the sporter for a couple hundred and you are happy.
 
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That stock has some kind of high gloss finish applied, and may have been sanded before it was applied, so I don't know how good a restoration it would make..
 
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