Rcaf m17

[RC20]

Mine does have the red paint, serial number of the rifle is etched into the stock. No unit markings so it also could have been Brit though it came from Vermont so closer to the Canadian source though that does not have to mean anything.

Bolt has a serial as well but not the right one! Got swapped someplace alone the way but head space is normal for the 1917 with the field gauge.

Re-import on the barrel so post 68.

Stock is not the right mfg but must have got linked up early enough to get the right serial (R stock on a Winchester frame as it were).

[QCI SPRINGFIELD]

I wonder what the official policy was on the red paint in Canada. Most of the PCMR rifles did not have them from what I have seen, though some of them did. I have seen some with only a tiny red band just behind the nosecap, and one with a larger red band about mid way between the nosecap and middle band. Here is are more pics of M-1917's in PCMR service.