Winchester30-30
Regular
- Location
- Fraserwood, MB
id have to look, but i think you are correct in saying its a m1917 stock, im pretty content using this stock set, if i find someone who has a p14 and wants to trade it sure, but untill then 
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Winchester30-30
Regular
- Location
- Fraserwood, MB
lou would you know, my stock is stamped with the canadian broad arrow, its to my knowledge that the m1917 was a us rifle, possible it was done in the armory?
- Location
- Beaverlodge, Alberta
some M1917s wound up up here in the service. Does yours have any traces of red paint near the front of the stock? The red paint was to indicate the non standard caliber 30-06.
I believe they were issued to RCAF?
I believe they were issued to RCAF?
Winchester30-30
Regular
- Location
- Fraserwood, MB
yes it did! under the front nose cap there was red paint,
Besides their exterior configuration, there are some internal differences between the P14 and M1917 stocks. The good news is that a P14 will fit OK in a M1917 stock. 20+ yrs ago Century Arms was selling commercially re-barelled P14s in M1917 stocks. I got one of these is an as new M1917 Remington stock. I had a Remington M1917 in an Eddystone stock, so swapped the 2. The P14 has always shot well in the M1917 stock.
During WW2 the M1917 was used extensively by both the RCAF and the Cdn Army reserves for service in Canada. The Veteran's Guard, who guarded the POW Camps, were armed with them as were other "odds & sods" like the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers. Due to the non-standard .30-06 chambering many Cdn and Brit issued M1917s had a red band painted around the forend to indicate the need for a different ctg than the standard .303 Brit. This same red band was also applied to lend lease M1 Garands and M1903 Springfields which were supplied to the Brits in early WW2. The British Home Guard, AKA "Dad's Army", used the M1917 extensively.
Both the P14 and M1917 were fine service rifles which wound up being used in secondary roles. I have a video copy of a Cdn Army training film showing troops being instructed in the use of the M1917. I don't know if Boyds is currently making a repro stock for the M1917 as they do for various other MILSURPs. I recall buying a couple of new, unused Eddystone M1917 stocks from Numrich when I visited their place in upstate New York in 1980.
Quite a few, but not all, of the M1917 rifles which were imported from Denmark around 1990 were ex-Cdn rifles and had either the C/broad arrow Cdn property marks or traces of red paint on them which indicated this. These had been used by the Danish reserves since the late 1940s/early 1950s and were the last significant lot of M1917s on the retail market. As a group they were well maintained and in good shape. There was quite a bit of Winchester/Remington/Eddystone parts mixing on them and both stocks and bolts had been stamped with the rifle's serial numbers, something the Danes also did with most of their M1 Garands.
During WW2 the M1917 was used extensively by both the RCAF and the Cdn Army reserves for service in Canada. The Veteran's Guard, who guarded the POW Camps, were armed with them as were other "odds & sods" like the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers. Due to the non-standard .30-06 chambering many Cdn and Brit issued M1917s had a red band painted around the forend to indicate the need for a different ctg than the standard .303 Brit. This same red band was also applied to lend lease M1 Garands and M1903 Springfields which were supplied to the Brits in early WW2. The British Home Guard, AKA "Dad's Army", used the M1917 extensively.
Both the P14 and M1917 were fine service rifles which wound up being used in secondary roles. I have a video copy of a Cdn Army training film showing troops being instructed in the use of the M1917. I don't know if Boyds is currently making a repro stock for the M1917 as they do for various other MILSURPs. I recall buying a couple of new, unused Eddystone M1917 stocks from Numrich when I visited their place in upstate New York in 1980.
Quite a few, but not all, of the M1917 rifles which were imported from Denmark around 1990 were ex-Cdn rifles and had either the C/broad arrow Cdn property marks or traces of red paint on them which indicated this. These had been used by the Danish reserves since the late 1940s/early 1950s and were the last significant lot of M1917s on the retail market. As a group they were well maintained and in good shape. There was quite a bit of Winchester/Remington/Eddystone parts mixing on them and both stocks and bolts had been stamped with the rifle's serial numbers, something the Danes also did with most of their M1 Garands.
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