P 14

Not if the rifle is in full military configuration. You'd have to find a barrel, change the extraction from rimmed to belted and modify the internal mag for the longer cartridge(7mm Mag won't fit) as a minimum.
No game in North America requires a magnum of any kind either.
 
Easier if you start with a P-17 action and a P-14 bolt. P-14 bolt is correct for the base of the 7 Mag round, P-17 action has straight feed rails already; just get them cleaned out.

The internal magazine on these rifles is a simple box, easy and quick to change out. If you are starting with a P-14, likely you will have to remove internal wood to get the longer mag box to fit properly; the rifles were designed for the shorter box of the .303 round, although the original design was for a magnum-class 7mm round, the .276 Enfield.

No problems with a barrel; it is a standard thread, no tricks to cutting it: not at ALL like that miserable left-hand, 3-to-the-inch, half-buttress thread in the 1905 Ross!!!

This is a relatively common conversion, although definitely NOT to be undertaken if you have an original rifle. You could be haunted forever if you wrecked an original rifle to do this. Lots of them already around, already wrecked.
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The man who runs Canada's top Sniper School, competes and wins most precisions shoots with his 7mm Magnum built on an Enfield action.
My advice. Go for it!
 
QM 86 said:
The man who runs Canada's top Sniper School, competes and wins most precisions shoots with his 7mm Magnum built on an Enfield action.
My advice. Go for it!
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My advice, do it with one that is "already wrecked" as smellie put it, as far as collector value. It's certainly worth thinking about, since thinking won't cost you cash. When it comes to actually doing it, worth is subjective. It's worth it if you want one that much.
 
Purely from an economic point of view it doesn't add up to sporterize a stock Mauser type military action any more, especially when you consider the cost of buying and fitting a custom barrel. Having done that, you are up against the costs of re-blueing, re-stocking, d&t for scope mounts, and some trigger work.

To make a P14/ M1917 look good you are also looking at straightening the trigger guard. The rear sight "ears" must also be milled off to fit a scope mount. As an offset to these costs, the P14 does not require a safety alteration or a bolt handle alteration to clear a scope.

All things being equal one is further ahead financially to buy a stock M700 Rem/M70 Win/M77 Ruger etc.
 
Century Arms did a few in 7mm +.300 WM.........................Harold..........I'd do a .300 H+H..........if IWM
 
Cheaper in the long run to just buy a sporting rifle in that calibre
Too many military rifles have been Bubba'd already.

Or You could look for a Remington model 30. Same rifle, but done at the factory with left over parts from M1917 production. There were so many parts left over from WW1 that They were making them up until 1940
 
mbogo3 said:
Century Arms did a few in 7mm +.300 WM.........................Harold..........I'd do a .300 H+H..........if IWM
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Yes I remember those, and they sold quite a lot of them (~20 years ago).

Maybe try to look for one of those, and at the end you'll save a lot of cash.
 
I have one of the Century Arms 300 WM rifles. A little heavy but a great hunting rifle.
 
I have done a couple of p14 conversions to 300 win mag and 338 win mag. If you can do the work yourself then it may work for you, if your paying a smith to do it then buy a factory rifle. Cheaper in the long run. Your lookng at $350 - $450 for a barrel blank to start with, then some decent wood plus mag work and if it still has the ears intact a bunch of work in that area. I wouldn't do another these days.
 
Or you could look for a Winchester Model 30. That's what happened to the recievers they had left over after the war. They turned them into sporting rifles that were produced until WW2.
Rear sight ears removed, sporting rifle stock fitted, blued, and the rest.
 
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