Just got a P14! ***Bandwidth Warning***

The P14 and U.S. Model 1917 rifles is one rugged military rifle....can take more abuse...and still come up shooting.....even to the point of standing up better than the Lee Enfield....the 2 piece stock for one thing...the P14 rifles have some of the best protected sights of any rifle..both front and rear....

The U.S. Springfield had some of the weakess sights put on a military weapon.....this was improved with the aperature on the 03/A3...but front sight is still unprotected....

I just love the battle sight on my P14.....
 
Honestly, I'd keep it just as it is if it were mine, as a piece of folk art it speaks rather powerfully, expecially the stock. The intact volley sight disk, symbolizes the horrors of war, the French coin <may> indicate service in France from the old soldier who initially bought it as surplus, and the Lord's prayer just speaks of a promise that she will never kill another man again ... Just ... priceless symbolism there, and I'm sure she brought meat to the table of some hungry family for decades after she was surplussed.
 
Hey Wally- I can just imagine what a confidence builder issuing rifles to the troops with The Lord's Prayer in the buttstock would be...here's your rifle, better start praying cause you're gonna die!!! :):D




I didn't know that they put the lords prayer on the bottom of these guns. Is this actually supposed to be there?
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I remember someone telling me that those prayers were the early century equivalent of the squished-penny-at-the-zoo with a lion on it. I suppose it would make sense to fix that to your rifle, especially as the saying goes, "Many men find the lord in the trial of battle."
 
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