This past July I bought a Winchester M1917 off GunBroker that had been sporterized. I searched around on the internet looking for data on these and read somewhere that a company sporterized a bunch of these in the 1960's? Is this true? Or were all the sportered M1917's done on an individual basis?

Any gurus out there that can fill me in on the "sporter" history of these guns?

Mine came with what appeared to be a Redfield rear sight. I removed the sight and had a local gunsmith install a weaver rail on it and mount a scope for me. He mounted it in such a fashion that if I want to I can remove it and go back to the Redfield sight.

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