P14 Sniper Wood

[Promo]

I was not aware it was on eBay, so went after it ... and Jesus, that is disturbing. He torch cut the receiver and sold the front receiver half among the barrel with the front base still installed too.
Stock: Lee Enfield 303 P14 Pattern 1914 Sniper Stock with Cheek Riser Original#2 | eBay
Barrel: Lee Enfield 303 1914 Barrel 25 Vintage | eBay
Peep Sight: Lee Enfield 303 P14 Pattern 1914 Rear Sight | eBay
(plus there were former auctions for magazine guard and bolt catch which I had not linked)

Based on his other auctions it seems firearms are not his focus.

[Alan de Enfield]

He still has the P14 Butt-Plate on sale.

[browningautorifle]

He torch cut the receiver and sold the front receiver half among the barrel with the front base still installed too.

I guess it's so he doesn't have to deal with any formalities. Shows he isn't a gun guy.

[Promo]

I guess it's so he doesn't have to deal with any formalities. Shows he isn't a gun guy.

Not fully sure, I'm though wondering why he didn't list the bolt nor the scope with mount.

[browningautorifle]

Whole thing is sad, you see these broken down to parts because in the LONG run they make more money. Hard for some to choke on the big bill. Originality means nothing to some.

[husk]

These could easily have been from a police confiscation where the receivers had to be destroyed. The sum of the parts here would not exceed the amount you could sell the whole gun for. Just a thought.

[Roger Payne]

It was one of only 421 examples ever made...........I've no idea how many have survived intact, but it can't be more than a few dozen, I'd think.

[smle addict]

Just an observation; my guess is that seller bought a job-lot of chopped weapons from a gunsmith estate or tinkerer. Looking at his "for sale" items, he has a few more barrels with chopped actions on auction. Looking at the various former weapons (Schmidt Rubin, Spanish Destroyer, P14) I am leaning towards ex-police confiscations, either stolen-recovered or those used in crimes. Most, if not all police departments in California routinely chop/melt down/destroy all firearms that can not be returned to rightful owners. As that seller is in Tennessee, perhaps their PDs are less draconian when disposing of firearms. I had a friend whose home was burglarized some years back, and he lost a Browning Hi-Power and a pre-ban M1A. Years later they were recovered. The police returned his Hi-Power, minus high-cap mag, but could not release his M1A as it was a pre-Ban rifle and he never registered it in 2000 as an assault rifle. It was destroyed, and the Police sent him a verification letter, with a Cal DOJ notice of destruction.

When I used to frequent Fed-Ord back in the late 80's, they sometimes had chopped/destroyed weapons for sale, purchased from either the El Monte or Whittier PD, or some foreign government. Those days, like Fed-Ord, are long gone.

A shame to see the fate of that P14, but I'd wager that was done by an uncaring bureaucrat completely oblivious to the rarity and significance of such a piece.

[Promo]

Well, had I seen that thing ... I'd had made a clean cut at the receiver rear and weld on the rear portion of a DP action and make it working again. It could had been saved if that guy would had listed all of them in one listing and clearly advertised as what it was.

[Kiwi]

Well that's just sad. At least there are some pictures i can use for my restoration.