Re-barrel

[cprher]

If interested I've got an original RIA barrel in 30'06. All measurements and careful examination tells me the wear is negligible. Bore bright and shiny. Lands and grooves very sharp. Muzzle perfect. Original finish 98%. Let me know if interested.







Keith.herrington@aol.com

[cprher]

Barrel is no longer available.
Keith

[Calif-Steve]

VERY few RIA M1917 barrels were ever made. Easily a very rare barrel. It was a project that never got started and was cancelled shorty after starting.

[ssj]

that looks pretty good for 50yds. You should get <2MOA on a good barrel and vertically it is. redo at 100yds.

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The receivers are very strong, Ive never heard of a cracked one while putting in a new barrel!

[WarPig1976]

The receivers are very strong, Ive never heard of a cracked one while putting in a new barrel!

Eddystone manufactured rifles have the unfortunate reputation of cracking when swapping barrels. The belief is, Eddystone tightened the barrels on with machinery which way over tightened the barrel. The problem showed itself when the the rifles where rebarreled in WW2. I think? SOP is to make a relief cut when rebarreling Eddystones, maybe Chuck or one of the other guys can chime in.

[Chuckindenver]

never seen a Eddystone with a crack, not saying that they wouldnt.
since all 3 makers used the same steel from the same supplier i dont know why one would crack easier then the others.
i have seen a few winchesters with cracks,
and all were from using the wrong tools, or using the right tools the wrong way..
all are cracked in the same place, from the same reason.
iv rebarreled hundreds of 1917s and have yet to crack one doing so..

[WarPig1976]

Thanks Chuck, That clears things up for me. Can't tell you how many times I've read and heard Eddystone's are prone to cracking. My guess would be it's because people have visions of machinery meant for Locomotive building being used to build rifles. That or it was started by a Winchester snob!!..

[Chuckindenver]

barrel install was done by hand,, by one man...and hand tools..

[Cosine26]

I believe that chuckindenver once posted a video of barrels being installed on M1917's. They were doing it with a barrel vice and an action wrench by hand, not a special hydraulic machine as is often reported.
FWIW

[Cosine26]

M1917 vs M1903 Accuracy
I have often wondered how the accuracy of a service grade M1917 compared with a service grade M1903. I have only seen the results of one such test and it was relatively inconclusive since the sample size was so small and different ammunition and different numbers of shot were fired with the various rifles. I believe that when the National Matches were fired in 1918, it was requested that all rifles be of Remington Manufacture. In the test cited above the Remington was more accurate than the Winchester fired in the same test.
*In the test described above twelve 10 shot groups were fired with a Remington M1917 in service configuration and gave an average of 3.78 inches at 100 yards. Ten shots with 1939NM ammo gave a 2.72 inch group. The remaining shots were fire with a mixture of FA 1931 and 1932 M1 ball ammo.
* One M1903 in service configuration was fired fourteen 10 shot groups with an average group size of 3.71 inches. Six groups fired with 1932NM ammo resulted in an average of 3.98 inches at 100 yards.
*In the Winchester M1917 in service configuration six 10 shots groups with M1 ball averaged 4.22 inches. With 1932NM ammo the average group was 4.22 inches at 100 yards.
Again the number of shots fired and the number of rifles tested was so small as to render the results inconclusive. These tests appear in the January 1940 AMERICAN RIFLEMAN.
FWIW