Found A P17 - Questions

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I was issued a new Eddystone M1917, S/N 160086 as a member of the Mississippi State Guard in late 1943. I trained with it (modified infantry training) at Camp Shelby Mississippi in the spring of 1944. I was promoted to sergeant because I was the only one in the company who could disassemble and reassemble the M1917.
We shot the rifle out to 600 yards using obsolete M1 ammunition. It was brutal on a skinny A$$ed kid, until I discovered our that a canteen cover made a good recoil pad. Quite and experience for a 17 (Just barely) year old boy. I stayed with the MSG until I enlisted in the USN at 17 for service in WWII. I do not know what happened to those rifles after the war.
FWIW