P14/ M17 stock set?

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Just picked up a Bubba'd Winchester P14 Enfield at a gun show last weekend. I would like to restore it to "era original", but am having a hell of a time locating the proper furniture. Anyone know where I can find one? (I'm losing hope here...:(
 
P-14 wooden stock complete to go

Im about to sporterize mine this summer with a synthetic stock. The full wood and metal is just to heavy to hunt with.
 
Reference your buubad; p-14

I even have a spare minus the bolt, barrel shot out though.
Perhaps we could figure something out, to me its spare -junk.
 
Hello Recce 21;
Did not mean to piss you or anybody else off.
You think i should keep it original?? ( p-14) ??
 
if you want a sporter p14 you can probably find someone that would trade guns with you
ive got both, its a wicked shame the sporter was chopped, its got a perfect barrel and shoots like a laser
 
enmow said:
Hello Recce 21;
Did not mean to piss you or anybody else off.
You think i should keep it original?? ( p-14) ??
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Absolutely! Keep it original! That way it will continue to gain value. The second you sporterize or bubba a milsurp, you are significantly damaging it's value. If you have a nice P-14 in full military dress it is worth much more than one that has been modified/sported/bubba'd etc etc.

Like I said, if you want a light bush gun then sell that P-14 on the Equipment Exchange and use the money you receive AND the money you save by not buying a synthetic stock to buy a light hunting rifle.

It's win-win. You get your moose gun and future generations get to keep history in their hands.
 
Hello kernalvax

Both my p-14s' are 1917 ERA models and i ha full line on another cheap if anyone is interested.
I just bought a checkslovakian ww-2 8mm mauser and aww-1 mk1 smle3 enfield original.
 
enmow said:
Hello Recce 21;
Did not mean to piss you or anybody else off.
You think i should keep it original?? ( p-14) ??
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YES, it's worth more $$ if you leave it alone than if you sporterize it. Take a $300 to $400 depending on condition (maybe more) and make it worth $100.

You could sell it and buy one already sporterized and buy the plastic stock and have money left over.

Just remember there are very few stashes of mil surplus left. These are not being made anymore...
 
"...P14/ M17 stock set..." They not quite the same. Close though. Gunparts has some Pattern 14 stock bits. Appears to be handguards only though. Listed under 'Enfield'.
Measure the barrel length first. A lot of bubba'd rifles had their barrels cut. No point spending the money for a stock if the barrel's too short. Should be 26" with the front sight still there.
 
I would think that if the rifles are marked ERA they would be P-'14s. I have a couple of M-1917s built in the same plant and both are marked EDDYSTONE.

P-14 was .303, of course, M-17 was .30-06.

I quite agree that an original rifle should be kept as-is so long as it is possible. There are lots of both P-14s and M-17s around, already sportered and some of them can really be made to shoot.

A friend and myself just spent about 6 years going through a whole raft of sportered M-1917s, these mostly the BSA conversions from the late 50s/early 60s. Out of eight or nine rifles, we only came across one that we couldn't get to turn in consistent 1-MOA groups after some bedding and fixing and things like that.... and it wasn't far behind at all. Those are really decent rifles.

That said, sportering yet another would be an awful waste.

There: I had to say it.

And I need a P-'14 stock so bad it isn't even funny!

I'm gonna go cry now.
 
and if you really want a sporter on that action, Find a Remington Model 30. They were still using up stocks of parts from WW1 until 1940!
All they did was grind off the "ears", blue it, and put a sporting stock on it.
As others have said by sportyizing an original rifle, you re doing nothing but DECREASING the value. This is not the 1950's early 60's when these rifles were all over the place and every gun magazine had articles on making a sporter out of one of those CHEAP milsurps.
Restocking it with a synthetic stock is not irreversible as long as you keep ALL the original bits and can put them back in future.
As the saying goes, 'THEY AIN'T MAKIN THEM ANYMORE"
OR my favourite,
"Too soon ve gets old und too late ve gets schmart"
 
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