Remington had tons of finished and semi-finished parts on hand at the end of production. They shut down the Forge House in 1919 and didn't start it up again until the Britishicon M1903 contract. Springfield bought a ton of finished parts immediately after WWI in order to rebuild all of the returning '17's from Europe. No other parts contract were let after that one contract. Remington then made Model 30's from left-over '17 parts. When the Depression hit in 1929 no one could sell any new guns and things fell apart. The '17 was a good gun, but Springfield was not about to allow commercial factories make the standard Infantry rifle.