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How to date a P14 Rifle?
Hello all- I am not a P14/M1917 collector by any means (I am a Mauser guy!). However, I do have a P14 Rifle that I had always assumed went through Weedon repair only I cannot find the cartouche that indicates which company so I got to wondering more about the rifle itself. Apart from the marking, which may have simply worn off, I am curious of the date of manufacture. I know that Oldguns.net has a database but it seems to only be for M1917's which would be great if I still had mine. So, is there any way or database that one could use to determine when his P14 was made?
Thanks!
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06-20-2011 06:55 PM
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Look on the left side of the knox form under the handgard. If the barrel was replaced during the rebuild it won't have a mfg date instead it will have the date of the rebuild. IIRC. Strangly enough, all I've seen or owned that still had their original barrels were dated '16 and were all Eddy's.
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ah! excellent thanks! I just pulled off the HG and it had what looks like a poorly stamped '27 so, a 1927 barrel on it. That's strange to me, that it has a rebarrel date during the inter-war period and so far from either conflict. Either way, I suppose that means there's not really a way to date the receiver?
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The rifle is an Eddystone (ERA), 6 digit serial starting with a 683.
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Mine's an Eddy with 6 digit ser.# 604xx. I still has it's original 1916 dated barrel. The numbers are close enough together to assume yours was made in 1916 too, but , you know what they say bout assumptions.
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Fair enough about the assumptions but I am satisfied with 1916 or 1917, it's close enough... Unless! Your rifle has a replacement barrel on it from excessive use and is actually a bit older.... Curse a historian's curiosity!
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Yeah, I thought of that too, but, it's all matching and the font is identical on all the #'s. It still has it's volley sights as well so I don't think it ever went through a rebuild. Does yours have a one or two piece handgard? Mine's a one piece and has 4 equally spaced slots bout 2 1/2'' x 1/4'' milled right down the center. I've yet to find out why they're there.
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Mine is a two piece; and that is strange- Northcape's British Enfields Volume 4 by Charles Stratton makes no mention of a one piece handguard but I do not doubt the existence of one; I have seen far stranger things on Brit rifles... perhaps it is an Indian replacement?
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