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$300 is not a bad negotiating start to buy. Full wood and un"attacked" P'14/M1917 rifles are less common than people think.
 
I will give you 400 for it after you buy it from the guy. They are probably the most underrated milsurp currently. I have a minty fresh Eddystone in the locker. 11-18 dated barrel. I would not part with it for less than 750.
 
If you don't want it you could buy it and turn a quick dollar on it, I would pay up to $500 for it, all matching with a good bore and you might even get someone to pay $600 for it.
 
Do you mean an M1917 Enfield, the "American Enfield" (frequently misidentified or mislabeled as the "P17", "P1917", or "Pattern 1917"), formally named "United States Rifle, cal .30, Model of 1917" ?
 
It's a P17 in the commonwealth, It's a M1917 in US. Pretty much a well used way to ID the date of introduction or production. funny, most WWI US items have it.

M1917 rifle
M1917 St. Louis Fighting Knife
M1917 A1 KELLY HELMET
U.S.GUN 75mm M1917
M1917 MG

Anyhow

Buy it for $300 is a good price, It was used in WWI by US troops more than the 1903A1 Springfield rifle. Sgt York used a M1917 in real life even though depicted with the 1903A1 in the movies and on his monument.
 
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Nope.

There was no Pattern 17 rifle.

Just a bunch of people who can't tell the difference.

Do you call a Camaro a Chevy II?
 
im pretty sure im going to pick it up but not sure if id sell it but i would trade it for a k98 haha i see what happen if i pick it up
 
Canadian training manuals from WW2 term it the "P-'17".

That term is correct in the Comonwealth.

We all aren't Yew Ess citizens YET.

Nice rifle, well worth the bucks.

I wouldn't even dither.

Grab it, take it home, stroke it a few times, talk to it, feed it and giggle madly.

It should be a Keeper.
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The rifle is a British design, therefore a Pattern rifle. Year marked the P-17 due to the caliber change. Parts are interchangeable between the two, par the mag housing, trigger guard, bolt/bolt parts and the rear sight. The rifle has 5 groove, 5 lands, and left hand twist to boot.

Issued in WWII in Canada and Britain. In Canada a red band was painted around the fore end to designate the difference in caliber, Can't recall if there was the same in the UK. There are references to the 30-06 cart called .300 caliber
 
$600 seems a bit high to me, so I wonder why he would be willing to let it go for half what he paid. But I got a shotgun for $300 that was unfired, from the guy who bought it new at retail for $600, so you can get lucky.

If I looked at it and couldn't find anything wrong with it and I didn't suspect the guy was the sort to try to dump a problem on someone else, I'd bet $300 on it. If it is good you can get more than that for it, and if you keep it you will look back in years to come and be glad you got one way back then (now) for only $300.
 
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$600 seems a bit high to me, so I wonder why he would be willing to let it go for half what he paid. But I got a shotgun for $300 that was unfired, from the guy who bought it new at retail for $600, so you can get lucky.
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im guessing he doesnt like shipping things, just like the guy i bought the mark 3 from, and it hard to get more for stuff around here cause not many people collect surplus guns,
 
As PBLATZZ said, the Brits called it a P or Pattern 17. Charels R. Stratton's volume 4 Lee Enfield rifles, makes mention on page one of this fact.
Call it what you will, it's a fun rifle.
Mine is a P14 Remington Mk1*
 
Pblatzz said:
The rifle is a British design, therefore a Pattern rifle. Year marked the P-17 due to the caliber change. Parts are interchangeable between the two, par the mag housing, trigger guard, bolt/bolt parts and the rear sight. The rifle has 5 groove, 5 lands, and left hand twist to boot.

Issued in WWII in Canada and Britain. In Canada a red band was painted around the fore end to designate the difference in caliber, Can't recall if there was the same in the UK. There are references to the 30-06 cart called .300 caliber
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Sorry but no.

A British rifle is only a "Pattern" rifle if a sealed pattern existed and it was entered in the Sealed Pattern Book at RSAF Enfield (now held at the National Firearms Centre, Leeds).

The M1917 was not so it cannot be officially a "Pattern '17".

I agree that people and some publications in WW2 do refer to it as the P.'17 but that is erroneous.

You are quite correct that the .30-06 weapons used by Britain and Commonwealth forces had the red band painted round the forestock to identify the calibre. Also, the official British title of .30-06 ammo was .300 inch and much of the contract ammo supplied by Remington includes ".300Z" in the headstamp ("Z" indicating a nitrocellulose load)

Regards
TonyE
 
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