.303 British (not a Lee Enfield)
- Thread starter hitch.bd
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- Location
- Manitoulin Island
There is quite a bit of information in "The History of Remington Firearms" by Roy Marcot (ISBN 1-59288-690-9). Remington carried on in 1921 to build Model 30 sporting rifles using left over parts from M-1917s. The last variants of this model were in 1940, followed by Model 720s. Remington also made the model of 1934 in 7mm Mauser from M1917 parts, but to fit a Springfield bayonet. 500 were made in 1934 and 2500 in 1935 for Honduras.
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I have quite a few of these rifles, sporterised in calibers from the originals up to 475 Ackley. They make good magnum rifles if you're willing/able to do the work yourself. Expensive if you can't. Still, good rifles. Eddystones have some heat treating issues, which usually don't manifest themselves until you try and take the barrel off. Tough sledding there! The later versions with the filled "fishpond" below the rear sight are slightly easier to work with, but they all make a good rifle. I hadn't thought of the value vs. gold before, interesting idea. - dan
- Location
- In lalaland, that is Ottawa.
Most accurate .30-06 I ever owned, my own bubbaing of a Winchester P-17. And more accurate than any of the several .308s I've owned as well.
And I believe that Remington's first bolt action, Model 30 (?), was based on their tooling for the .30-06 P-17.
I was looking at my p-14 again last night and finally found what I think is the date stamp. '16 (1916 I'm guessing) I missed it before because it has a bunch of smithing stamps all around it. I also found, on the front sight, to the right of the blade the # 14. I'm guessing because it is a P-14.
- Location
- Federal Riding of Wascana
I rather doubt that the P-14 was being made in July of 1918. Problem here is two almost-identical rifles, each with a serial number range starting at 1 in each of 3 different plants. It is possible to assemble a "set" of 6 rifles with the SAME serial number!
Well according to info I've found suggests that my serial number on my ERA was made in July of 1918. Lowes Certified Guns site has the story of Eddystone, author suggests that rifles were still in production until January of 1919 when the plant ceased to operate. Winchester continued on until April of 1919.
Winchester and Remington produced close to 1,000 rifles a day of each type during the contracts while Eddystone actually got ramped up all the way to FOUR THOUSAND rifles a day, plus spare parts. For a plant that hadn't made a single rifle only a couple of years before, this is VERY impressive.
Production actually got up to 6000 rifles per day. with over 1.9 million produced with parts for another 200,000.
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Well according to info I've found suggests that my serial number on my ERA was made in July of 1918. Lowes Certified Guns site has the story of Eddystone, author suggests that rifles were still in production until January of 1919 when the plant ceased to operate. Winchester continued on until April of 1919.
Winchester and Remington produced close to 1,000 rifles a day of each type during the contracts while Eddystone actually got ramped up all the way to FOUR THOUSAND rifles a day, plus spare parts. For a plant that hadn't made a single rifle only a couple of years before, this is VERY impressive.
Production actually got up to 6000 rifles per day. with over 1.9 million produced with parts for another 200,000.
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here is a picture of p17 and p14 the one at bottom is P14 .
awessome rifles , the 17 is a nail driver even with my tired eyes aand the 14 isnt bad iether
You have some beautiful old girls there Ianwd. The P14 I have has been sporterized so it doesn't look that nice but she is still special!
