Help deciphering a 303's stamps?

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Hey There,
have recently acquired a old .303, like every one has at some point lol
Been trying to decipher all these damn stamps for days now, the whole thing looks like a government worker was just stamping away to look busy.
Only have the one pic right now, its got a sport stock on it, a blindfed mag...

So far what I have "found" out is that the arrow = British, the G R P = George Rex Proofed, so King George V made them all get nitro proven, so it was made before 1936,
the crown over BM = BSA.
No idea what the random Z is, or the A s P with crossed swords is, or the little corwn over 01 A thats sideways above nitro proof.
Would love to restore it, but want to figure out fully what it is I am working with, this will be the first project like this I have ever even thought of taking on, but was really inspired by a fellow on here by the handle of englishman something ( Sorry! I had written down your name but can't find the paper at the moment).
His restored enfields were eye opening to me, and now I think I has me a project!

Thanks in advance for any help or advice, more pictures to follow!
Oh and of course this rifle has a story, it was traded for moonshine by a neighbor whose kid had bought it off a veteran, who had carved (Bubba-ed) a deer into the side of the stock while in the trenches and missing home.Oh and naturally it was a sniper's rifle. :confused:


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From the information you have given us (lol!) we won't even be able to tell what MODEL it is, much less anything else.

Post some good photos of the entire rifle, plus close-ups of the area where you find the proof markings, and we can have a go from there.

It COULD be a P-'14 (made in the USA in World War I in 3 different plants) but then.......
 
Either my eyes have finally quit on me or this machine is going all wonky or SOMEdamnedTHING is amiss.

I don't get a photograph at all.

Is friend TIRIAQ now psychic, or do I have a problem?
 
Okay, a 1917 barrel date on a P.-'14 tells you that it is rather late production for a P.-'14 rifle. You will have NO problems fitting spares if ever you need them.

When the US entered the Great War in April that year, all three plants which were making the P.-'14 rifle for Britain were tapering-off production in reply to contract cancellations they had received. The fact that the three plants were operational at that time permitted the very fast changeover to building the US Rifle, Cal. .30, Model of 1917, which was nothing more than a P.-'14 with a few mods to fit it for the US .30-'06 cartridge.

The M-1917 was quite possibly the BEST military rifle of the Great War, it outfitted TWO-THIRDS of all US troops to get into the combat zone, it had a sterling combat record..... and it is STILL despised by many Americans as a "British rifle" of somewhat-inferior type. Propaganda, pure and simple.
 
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