Should I buy Eddystone 1917

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Aragorn

What articles did you read?? did the authors cite any first person accounts?? did any of the authors present their sources?? Regrettably, a lot of information on the web is not trustworthy or just plain hogwash.
Brittle receiver steel in an assembled, passed proof M1917?? I would like to see their source.

45B20

Here is the article which mentions the brittle Eddystone receiver:

http://www.fulton-armory.com/LNSpringfieldLowRes.pdf

It is primarily about the early Springfields but there is one Eddystone that they did their "test" on, although reading it again, this may be a receiver that was sent to him and cracked when being rebarreled.

On the receiver cracks, nearly all the articles on this were from message boards similar to this one and seemed to be "words of wisdom" passed down from person to person so accuracy is questionable.