just bought a P14 - finally

[Iosens]

Thanks Patrick

That DOES make me happy - I really was not sure what I got when I bought it - but I definitely wanted the front volley intact.

I am still somewhat confused though: I thought that the asterisk like seen on the wood with the mysterious "J 3" (what's that?) was the "improvement mark" i.e. MK 1*.
And if asterisk on the wood is the Weedon star, why are the sights still there?
I searched around and could not come up with a picture of the "Weedon star", can you post one?


Unfortunately I do not find any "Patt 14" on the stock maybe it got sanded at some time. And obviously the disk has been removed.

I am also still not sure about the line of furniture:

Oldest : "Fat boy with no groves and the diagonal bulge between volley sight and action"
Next: " Volley sight and short grooves" like mine.
Newest: " Long groves no volley sight"
???

I have seen nice tables with serial numbers and dates for my No4 - is there anything like it for the P14?

Can you give me a price range of what this gun should run for?

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[Patrick Chadwick]

Dear Iosens, please do not be offended, but you need to get some P14 knowhow before you get more confused by mixing up fragmentary information. "Fat boy" stocks were early Eddystones, not Winchesters.

I have seen nice tables with serial numbers and dates for my No4 - is there anything like it for the P14?

Alas, no!

You urgently need "The Pattern 1914 and US Model 1917 Rifles" by Charles R. Stratton, from North Cape Publications, ISBN-882391-29-2.

And if asterisk on the wood is the Weedon star, why are the sights still there?

Probably because there is no asterisk on the wood of your rifle. It has never been Weedoned or FTRed. Now please make a photo of the backsight and post it here, so that we can all see if you've hit the jackpot - and if you had the book, you would know what that is. A photo of the receiver ring would also be informative.

So while I am sleeping, you have got time to order that book !!!

[A square 10]

the grasping grooves differed between remington and winchester , but all were made simultaneously in the contract period , perhaps this will help - this is the eddystone fatboy stock