New to us P14's usable?

[mwells72774]

Got these in a huge lot of guns at a estate auction. Are they usable for builds, from an visual inspection. 2 separate rifles. Pics show markings as best as able. Both are 5 digit SN's

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[browningautorifle]

Drill Purpose guns are marked that for a reason. There are pages of info here about why...and it ain't good.

[mwells72774]

One is clearly marked DP, the action looks solid is why I asked. As far as the second (image #5), can't really tell what it's marked. Doesn't look like the DP stamp.

[browningautorifle]

Both are DP marked. You can't tell by visual, there are pages of information here by armorers that have personally DP'd weapons as to the various reasons. It means they should never be live fired again.

[mwells72774]

Alright thanks for the info

[fjruple]

mwells72774--

As Jim indictates you cannot judge a DP P14 receiver by just looking at it. If you are seriously considering using the receivers for a rebuild. I would send the receivers out to a gunsmith who specializes in metallurgy be magnafluxed, X-ray and hardness tested. It will costs you. On top of that you will have to find the proper parts to rebuild the P14s. I would begin with brand new barrels and non-DPed bolts. New parts have not been available since at least WWII. Even then they were scarce as the Brits had to stripped a little over 3,000 P-14 to get parts. They also had to convert 17,000 M1917 firing pins to fit the P14.

Just be careful if you do a conversion.

--fjruple

[mwells72774]

We've got the tooling to check for Rockwell. Our family opened a machine shop several years ago and this past February decided to open a gun shop as well, just makes sense right? We can do a lot of the testing just not sure what to check for

[browningautorifle]

just not sure what to check for

And that's the point. It's hard to say what the guns were marked DP for in the first place and without that specific info you can test all day long without examining the fault.

[mwells72774]

Anyone need any parts off of either?

We (our gun shop) got 240+ parts/incomplete guns in an auction lot and these were in there as well as a P17 in good shape, tag on it said "good missing stock"

[browningautorifle]

You could do a list in the WTB and flog the greatest part of them right here...I should think.