Something to cry over

**Patrick Chadwick** · 01-13-2012 04:30 PM

I keep up a good working relationship with the two dealers in my area. They know they can ask me if they have a question about provenance and evaluation of old service rifles, and I get to see things before they get to be put into the sales display. Which means, of course, that some guns just never made it to the display...

Yesterday one of the dealers asked me to have a look at a collection that someone had brought in for evaluation and disposal. Amongst the bog-standard Mosins, Carcanos and Mausers was a P14, with a damaged foresight. Which the dealer evaluated as scrap.

Now it just so happens that the only spare foresight around these parts is quite possibly the one in my cellar. I was beginning to calculate how to get my greasy little paws on the P14 in a permanent kind of way for approximately zero cash.

The rifle was a Winchester P14 MkI (no star)
Number 130xxx
Real blue bluing, not black, brown, parkerized green or anything else.

And the chamber had been welded up!

Patrick

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**Chuckindenver** · 01-14-2012 01:55 AM

dayum..time for a new barrel.

**Promo** · 01-14-2012 06:28 AM

Patrick,

Was only the chamber welded up or were there additional holes in the barrel? If it's only the chamber being welded, I have someone who can fix that without changing the barrel.

Sonst schick mir doch eine PN, wäre interessiert

€dit: I'd have a front sight around too...