Non refurbished M1917 Eddystone.

It's been a long time coming for me to own an unmessed with Eddystone,, I think I did well. The rifle is ALL Eddystone and has honest wear for a weapon nearly 100yrs old. You'll have to trust me when I say the bore is pristine to the naked eye.

Now for the story..... Apparently I'm the 4th owner of this rifle and,,,what for it..... It was found under the floor boards with tens of others in there crates at the Eddystone factory in one of the buildings being demolished...:) So, in theory this rifle has never left Delaware County Pennsylvania. Gotta be worth double the going nut!! Sweet huh?...;)
Thanks in advance for looking.....
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Nice, nice, nice...can you imagine pulling up the boards and finding crates? This is a story I've heard many times from demo companies. Guns in old houses and buildings...not me though.

WOW, another beauty, what a find.
Interesting, my Eddystone is #, 827,8xx supposedly made in 1918. Wish it looked like that.
Still a tack driver too.
Chuck

Nice...not many like that around.

She is a beauty for sure, thanks for showin her off!

Very nice Warpig! It makes me wonder about the origin of my own 11-18 barrel Model 1917. As with yours the bore looks very, very nice and overall very good cosmetically. Surprising thing about mine was that in-spite of the condition, the action/ barrel weren't properly bedded which required significant shortening of the front collar, etc. As I've managed to get proper up-pressure at the forend tip it's started to group. Does yours appear to have left the factory with decent bedding? Maybe some very late war guns didn't receive proper attention?

Ridolpho

There is very little tip pressure, maybe a few pounds. I'm not sure if that was intended or not to be honest but it is the only contact the barrel has with the stock. The bedding appears to be uniform.

:thup: A beauty, Ray

I wish I could find a similar one.

looks good, original parkerized rifle...good score

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First shots today, I'm happy. First target I was sighting, I got three distinct groups. #1 too low, #2 too high and #3 right on the money. I was shooting my M2 ball equivalent using plan jane 150g Hornaday FMJ/BT with IMR4895 @ 100yds.
Second target I'm shooting 168g Hornaday match HPBT.
As for tip pressure... Looks to me like it's just fine the way it is so perhaps intended. For 103yr old rifle I can't ask for more.
One thing I did notice is it was hard for me to see the post clearly which is odd because I have 20/15 vision. Suppose I have to find the sweet spot for my cheek weld...dunno?
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Looks good to me too. Just fine...

warpig: Nice shooting. Your results are better than mine after quite a bit of fiddling to get decent forend tip pressure so it looks like you don't need to touch a thing. Had mine out to a friendly battle rifle shoot last weekend and was scoring well at 440 yards though at that distance I didn't appreciate how the front sight protectors fill up so much of the view. I may move my Parker-Hale sight from a P14 to this rifle and see what it's like though, of course, the range calibrations won't mean anything.

Ridolpho

You are very lucky. This is one rifle where you should not "pull up the plant to see how the roots are growing". Do not mess with the bedding, upward pressure etc etc.
5 shots is inadequate to be quite sure, but looking at the 2nd target, it seems that the 168gns might actually be a touch better for grouping - if we may assume that the one low shot had a bit of "unrecoverable user error". Give it another try with 8 shots of each load. Measure the total group in each case. Then (allowing for a possible user error), strike out the worst shot in each case, and measure the group size again. If a load scores better on both measurements, then that is the better one.

Lucky Indeed! Load development will come later after rifle league season. The 168g loads were in fact for my 03A3, needed the rest for the match, but I know a good starting point..:super:

Looks fake to me, but I'll send my address so you can get rid of it. I'll pay shipping.

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Originally Posted by RBruce

Looks fake to me, but I'll send my address so you can get rid of it. I'll pay shipping.

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I like this one but let me call the guy that found the crate I'm sure he has a few more...;)