Rifle Identification

[welsh13ik]

Hello everyone.

Picked this rifle up yesterday at a gun show thinking it was an early 1917, and was labeled as such and 30.06 caliber. Clearly the stock is from a P14, which I was not worried about. However, now that I have it home and have been doing some research, I'm beginning to think the receiver is actually a P14, and not an M1917. I have however seen several sites and sources state the early 1917's where labeled like the older P14's (serial on this is 60k range) so I just want clarification from someone that knows a lot more than me This is my first p14/m1917 so I'm far from an expert.

I can confirm that the bolt is a 30.06 bolt, so M1917 bolt. The receiver is a Remington, almost everything else including the barrel is Eddystone marked. My thought is someone at some time took a P14 and converted it for 30.06 with an M1917 barrel and bolt.

So what do you guys think? Secondly I do not have the tools to slug the chamber to confirm the caliber (it was labeled by the seller as 30.06 which of course really means nothing), but it will feed and chamber 30.06 smoothly. My thought was that if the barrel was off a P14 and therefore .303, then 30.06 would not chamber (much longer round and was confirmed when I tried to drop a 30.06 into my No4Mk1 as a test). Can anyone else confirm this? I just want to be sure some yahoo didn't just throw a M1917 bolt on an old P14 rifle with it's .303 barrel, before I try shooting it. The fact the receiver and barrel are differing manufacturers tells me that it's atleast not an original barrel to that gun. Thoughts?

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