Another M1917

[Doco overboard]

I picked up this Eddystone M1917 #283675 from a local gun store, it was wearing a sported issue stock and came with another stock that must be a replacement from a rebuild long ago. The finish was a bright lime green park that has darkened up with a coat of oil and I found some hand guards and a front band that is W marked for the only capital part not marked with an E. Interesting to me is that the bore and muzzle exhibit little wear for a barrel marked 12-17 in contrast to others that I have seen that are cosmetically better in appearance but are described with considerably more barrel wear. I have another Eddystone in the 560k range 4-18 barrel in excellent shape that has the original wood with eagle heads, no rebuild stamp on port side but has again been lightly blasted and parked with greenish hue, only the eagle heads in the metal are highly figured versus this one. It looks like some later Eddystone examples some of which pictures have been posted here recently have a sort of different finish that looks blue or or oil black to me that is more pleasing to the eye. At any rate, head-space checked okay with a Forster no-go on a stripped bolt and handle becoming resistant to close about a touch more than 3/4 closed, and after some JB and Kroil printed a nice group from prone at 100 yd with various coat pocket ammo left over from the fall without to much effort so can't complain about performance but a little left to be desired for appearance

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[henry r]

doco's pics.

[Salt Flat]

Doco, It looks good to me. The most important thing is the bore and the headspace and it looks like you scored in that department. Also that rifle is almost 100 years old and been through several wars! Good save-- Salt Flat

[Doco overboard]

Thanks for the comments and the help with the pictures, I was lucky to find this one, its a little rougher than the pictures actually reveal but will do where it counts.