Strange Eddystone M1917 conversion

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Patrick,

The Greenland-Rifle is correct, the M1917 was used at the 'Sirius Patrol', the sled dog patrol on Greenland. I'm not sure about the design of the rifle, but they definately used the M1917 (as did the Danish). The fact that there are more of them around the world (thanks Brit plumber for the link) would confirm that.

Back to the origin of my thread: please note that the stock of the rifle is completely different from any Pattern 1914 stock. It's got the short finger clearance cutout, but no volley sight disc. And what do the markings on the front sight protector mean? Why would someone assemble parts and mark the front sight with E, 5 7 over 44?

PS: Save those pictures please as they'll be deleted from the linked page within the next 2 months.

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Did some further reasearch on the Danish story. Interestingly that the Danish Homeguard altered 2000 M1917s in 1962 to .22lr, designated as 5,6 mm instruktionsgevær M/60(53/17), based upon the prototype version T/57 (53/17). It may be that they used the 10.000 M1917s with cut notches they got from Norway.