What is this? (.303 rifle)

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Hello Fellow CGNr's,

I'm wondering if anybody can help me put a name to this rifle and possibly determine it's value. I can't find anything that looks exactly like it.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you kindly.

Shaun.














 
Those are actually human fingers and toes, but they are difficult to see because there seems to be an Enfield P14 in the way. :)

(Enfield Pattern 1914). GREAT, under-appreciated rifle.
 
Its a pattern 1914 Enfield made by Eddystone (ERA)

Value is some monetary value between 0-200ish depending on the condition of the bore, matching numbers etc etc.

Dangit Lou beat me too it
 
yep Enfield pattern 14 built at ERA eddystone Remington enfield sporterized of course, hard to say what it is worth in this day and age, many years ago, it would be worth anything from what someone is willing to pay you, to diddly squat.
 
Your rifle looked like this when it was originally made:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rifle_Pattern_1914_Enfield_-_AM.006960.jpg

Someone has cut the wood back to lighten it for use as a hunting rifle, which is a shame in our eyes but when they did it that made perfect sense to them. Replacement wood is not common but if you do come across some, fortunately your rifle didn't get the full mistreatment of chopping the barrel back to replace the foresight with a sporting type and the milling off of the rear sight protectors ("ears") so it could be restored.
 
Handled and fed properly, these are capable of utterly incredible accuracy. I have the twin to this one here; it shoots half-a-minute on its BAD days

They are easy to scope, too, with an S&K Insta-mount. This is a no-drill, no-tap mount, so you end up with a scoped top-grade hunting rifle and you still have an unb!tched military rifle to restore.

The actions are a super-strong development from the 95 Mauser.

They do deserve MUCH better than they have had.

The P-14 is the direct ancestor of the entire Remington line of bolt rifles AND the entire line of Winchester bolt rifles.

Historically, that's pretty darned hard to beat. They were all made in the US from 1915 through 1917, on contract for the British Government.
 
A highly underated military rifle actually the grandfather of the Remington model 30 sporting rifle. I recently read an article claiming that the British Army ran accuracy tests on all of the different manufacturers of the pattern 14 and determined that on average Winchester produced rifles were the most accurate of the lot. Consequently only Winchester production rifles were set up as sniper rifles by the British Army. Anyone else ever heard this?
 
Mike Webb said:
A highly underated military rifle actually the grandfather of the Remington model 30 sporting rifle. I recently read an article claiming that the British Army ran accuracy tests on all of the different manufacturers of the pattern 14 and determined that on average Winchester produced rifles were the most accurate of the lot. Consequently only Winchester production rifles were set up as sniper rifles by the British Army. Anyone else ever heard this?
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This is mentioned in Luke Mercado's Allied Rifle Contracts in America on page 140.
 
smellie said:
The P-14 is the direct ancestor of the entire Remington line of bolt rifles AND the entire line of Winchester bolt rifles.
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That said, I believe if it wasn't for the British contract for the P-14, either Winchester or Remington was heading down bankruptcy road. Not to mention when the USA entered WW I
the later M1917 (p-17) would have not been there to bail out Springfield. Being there was more M1917's used in WW I to American soldiers than the 1903. Even Sgt York used
the M1917 (even thought the statue(s) and movie show him with a 1903)
 
The idea that Remington and especially Winchester were heading for bankruptcy in 1917 is ridiculous. The model 1917 filled the gap for 1903 Springfield production shortfalls but neither Remington or Winchester was in financial trouble at the time. Winchester was THE premium American gun maker and Winchester sporting arms were rolling off the line to eager buyers. I don't think the Pattern 14 was much influence on the design of the Winchester model 70 any more than the 98 Mauser was. Remingtons model 30 was a sportered model 1917 for sure as Remington had a lot of jigs and fixtures already made to produce the Pattern14/ model 1917 actions. It just made good business sense.
 
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