My recently acquired M1917 sporter (that is still stumping me).

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why do you think its an M1917 made 'after' WWI ? there is no where enough shown to establish anything except the info you got above regarding the marking , its a use mark - not a mfgr mark ,

all 1917s were made in the war years , but they were reissued in later years and "given" as foreign aid , that is most likely the source of the marking , these left the factory with no cartouche

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why do you think its an M1917 made 'after' WWI ? there is no where enough shown to establish anything except the info you got above regarding the marking , its a use mark - not a mfgr mark ,

all 1917s were made in the war years , but they were reissued in later years and "given" as foreign aid , that is most likely the source of the marking , these left the factory with no cartouche

I was giving a back story of sorts in my original post to go along with the picture (I wasn't planning on going a little off topic [Not that I care, really]). The rifle I bought has the SN in the 1.197M range [around 12/1918]. Since I know (from the research I did) there were a small percentage of 1917's made after 11/1918 by Winchester & Eddystone. If you want to know more about my rifle I will be more than happy to post the link from the CMP Forums if you want.