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    Just for FYI, I ordered a M1917 barrel from CMPicon on 04/28 and arrived to my front door on 05/12, very quick turnaround

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    Quote Originally Posted by dp68 View Post
    Just for FYI, I ordered a M1917 barrel from CMPicon on 04/28 and arrived to my front door on 05/12, very quick turnaround
    very quick indeed. my last order was scorebooks and 2 bayonets. I think it took a few months cause they wereverifying cmp membership for the bayonets.

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    Just a little followup...

    Box of parts ---> here

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    Nice serviceable lookin' rifle now. Lots of character, not over pretty so you can use it regularly without fear. Did you get all the hardware parkerized to match? Grey?
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    Yep, the CMPicon barrel is parked, so I had all the metal parked to match and look like the WW2 era rebuild. I was worried about bolt setback on the receiver, an early Winchester, but it turned out to be a non issue. It was always going to be a shooter, so finishing it this way made sense.

    Surprisingly, soon after this project was complete I came into another m1917 barreled receiver, an Eddystone, and then was lucky to get a stock as a gift. I already had a front sight and stock metal, so only needed a few parts more and now I have two 17s. Neither is collectible, but both shoot great, and I'm happy with the results.

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    Quite a set of patches in the lower one, still as you say shooters. They look just fine...
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    Turned out real nice. Looking forward to hearing the range report!
    I've been thinking of doing 1917 to compliment my original. So many sporters out there right no...few with the ears in tact but they are sill out there. I'll keep being patient, waiting on the right bubba to show up in a local pawn shop while I finish restoring the ones I have in queue already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ssgross View Post
    new barrels are in stock at CMPicon https://estore.thecmp.org/Catalog/Item/065CRI/1917
    They are a few months behind on fulfillment, so while you wait you can clean up your parts and work on smoothing out fit and function. A fine sandblasting and re-bluing will make it a pretty shooter. looks like you have some duplicate parts so you can be choosy .

    chuckndenver does a great job at bluing or parkerizing, among other things. He usually has an ad on forum - warpath vintage llc.
    Very nice and a bargain for $199.95 US Pity we can't get them to do some .303 barrels as well, preferably in a blued finish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Surpmil View Post
    Pity we can't get them to do some .303 barrels as well,
    https://criterionbarrels.com/product...v=7516fd43adaa
    I guess that means they are out there, in theory at least.

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