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My 1917 has a stamp near the toe of the stock, which looks like a "2E8", or "2 7 8" (with the 7 rotated 90deg ccw). Any clues what that may indicate?

The SN is 7544xx (late 1917 manuf.), with a...

Hi, Bear43 and HoH. If either of you have a trigger guard marked "E", I have a "W" that I'd like to swap for an E. See Sarco photo for what I'm talking about.

I think Rick got it right. This week I was shooting slow-fire prone, and all but one case ejected between 3 o'clock and 5 o'clock. One case flew back, bounced off the bill of my cap, then my...

It's very possible that I pinched-up my face in a way that actually held the hot brass wedged in-place. My memory is:
- ouch! pain!
- shout!
- pull pain from face!

...and not much else.
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Twelve days ago, I was shooting my M1 in standing position, along with some other league shooters. At one point, I felt a pain in my face, let-out an unintelligble noise ("Argh!"), lowered my rifle,...

I used a similar load: Hodgdon's website's "reduced load" for H4895 and 125gr Speer TNT (less powder, rather than more powder like you used). I did find that the 125 gr bullets were less tolerant of...

Genau! What is so nice, with the reduced load, is that the rear sight becomes usable, even at 100m. I believe that you must find a load that reaches the bullseye at the distance you shoot. Greek...

Thanks for the tips. I agree that going lighter seems more likely to work: I had good results a few years ago using 125 grain FMJ over H4895 at 75% of max. load. I haven't seen H4895 in ages, but...

I tried something called "the load" by Ed Harris (13.0 gr Red Dot, standard boolit, sized to throat diameter +2/1000") in my M1917. A 165 gr. FP cast boolit didn't stabilize, with about 1 in 5 shots...