P-14 Rifle

This is my P14 that I just bought last month. I am still trying to figure out what all the marks on her mean. Any help with books or websites on figuring them out would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards
Lisa

I might be wrong but she appears to be used. I think;) nice to have friends isnt it ?

Very nice to have friends like you :madsmile: But at least I did manage to get a picture on here.

Not too sure about the P-14 references but if you want the brass disk that goes on the buttstock, SARCO has some in stock last time I looked.

Hows the bore? I really want to get a few of the P-14's

Dan

Dan, thanks for the info. The bore seems to be in great shape, will hopefully get to fire her this weekend, weather permitting of course.
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Lisa

Nice to see a lady on the boards. :thup:That is a nice rifle for a beginning collection. I'm still missing an example of a British rifle for my collection.

ERA means Eddystone
R means remmington
W means winchester

Whichever one that you have will show where it was built

I think Remington was marked RA

Dan

Thanks gentlemen. Mine is an Eddystone. She is marked ERA and E's on all the parts that I can see. Found out she is a Rifle No3 Mk I*. Also has a British Broad Arrow right next to where the regimental disk was. Have a line on some books that might help decipher some of the cartouches. Trying to learn as much history as possible on her. Seems that so much of our WWI and WWII weapon history is being lost and I want my children to learn about it.
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Lisa

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Seems that so much of our WWI and WWII weapon history is being lost

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And this rifle seems to be much worse at lost history than any others, probably because this rifle was solely made by commercial manufactures and with no requirement to keep documentation after completion of the contract. It would seem most of the documentation was chucked out.

At least Winchester DID keep more documentation than the other two.

Dan