1917 ENFIELD EDDYSTONE FOR SALE FREE
The problem is the stock was a quick fit job, "by the book" it needs alot more wood removal, evening of pressures of wood on metal, or free floating, I just did the minimum to make it testable, cheap commercial ammo, not reloaded stuff I spent a day assembling, flash hole uniformity to case weight identical etc. I had to replace stock after acquiring the item from an acquaintance whose wife had grabbed the barrel and smashed butt on concrete floor breaking stock during a marital discussion on the typical no-good husbands devotion of resources and time to a chunk of metal over the lovely missus.
I have a Remington 30-S Express drilled tapped for redfield scope mnts, put a old 8x prewar Zeiss scope on her, took to range, sandbagged, first three rounds at measured 100 yards were all touching holes. Indeed any action can be damaged by improper barrel removal, some will just twist, some will break all depends on how hard the steel is and how fast the barrel is stuck.
1917 ENFIELD EDDYSTONE FOR SALE CRACKED
Again the problem with cracked Eddystones was the way the barrels were removed. I personally would not have an Eddystone reheated, nothing wrong with treatment that it had originally. Instead of cutting a relief just ahead of the ring then unscrewing barrel, the, I believe you call them Bubba gunsmiths over there(simply called rough c*nts in aust) would put the action in a vice put a pair of stilsens and a 10ft cheater bar on the barrel and go at it. Seems the barrel was soo tight that the removal process often cracked the receiver ring.Īnd I repeat, the correct 1917 can be made into a real nice rifle if the metal worker knows what he is doing and has the proper machinery and tooling.I was told same thing. One of my old army buddies (now passed away, he was a LtCol in WWII and had armourers experience) told me the Eddystones were usually damaged when the original barrel was removed for replacement. You may be right, see my mention of the hydraulic wrench in my above post.
Put bluntly, there are cheap second hand modern rifles that would make a much safer and better handling sporter with much less effort than the p14 and m1917, which were made under wartime conditions from early 20th century steels and from a design that had abysmal gas handling if you pop a primer or worse! Otteson's, the bolt action vol 1 covers the modifications they carried out, including the conversion to cock on openning, and the appendix covers some of the speedlock conversions.
Perhaps we should re-cycle the books from the 50s that encouraged it, perhaps toilet tissue would be an appropriate new use for the fibre?Īssuming that you have an already butchered M 1917, remmington lowered the receiver bridge of the leftover 1917 actions it turned into factory sporters, presumably to get below the recess. I can rant for pages and pages about the sins of making worthless junk from good old military rifles using household DIY tools. If the receiver is still complete with its rear sight protecting lugs, I, personally would leave it as it is.