The "secondary" military rifle for the US in The Great War. One heckin dandy rifle that has all the good stuff for your going over the top into no man's land needs!
The battle sight was for 400 yard targets, the ladder sight is adjustable from 100 yards to 1600 yards. According to the 1914 / 1917 handbook 1,235,298 P14 s were made and 2,193,429 U.S. Rifle .30 Model 1917 s were produced.
The one bad thing about Great War rifles is those battle sights being set for those distances. Makes people think the guns are inaccurate and they end up changing the sight when sporterized. -N
I also have an all Winchester U.S. Model of 1917 sporteriaed in 1968 by me.... with Walnut Fajen stock and Bausch and Lomb 3x9 scope with Williams iron sights..... and Williams scope mounts
I have a heavily sporterised M1917 Eddystone,, action bedded, floated Shilen single taper barrel, Timney trigger shimmed and reground sears, solid bedded mount for an 8-32 scope, 50's sporterised stock and chrome bluing. The actions get a plum type blue due to the nickel. best group so far is 5 shots in .313" at 100yards. Love my rifle
You need to create a way to project a silhouette of war scenes on the sheet plastic while filming your videos. Tanks moving behind you, soldiers marching. Battleships firing cannons. Airplane dog fights, etc. Turn the lights off behind the plastic and see if projecting images can be seen clearly on the viewing side. Cool idea. Beautiful rifle. I know where one is, but the LGS wants one and a half K.
We’ll get there, getting a better background is on the agenda. Never thought of projecting on it though. Also the price tag for that M1917 sounds about right in today’s market. -N
new sub here......nice review of the Model of 1917...cheers from an old fart in Orlando, Paul...and owner of a 1917 Winchester U.S. Model of 1917, unfortunately Sporterized by me in 1968 when I was a young lad.....but very well done....I must say...
British design, American Made and Greatly Improved.
The battle sight was for 400 yard targets, the ladder sight is adjustable from 100 yards to 1600 yards. According to the 1914 / 1917 handbook 1,235,298 P14 s were made and 2,193,429 U.S. Rifle .30 Model 1917 s were produced.
The one bad thing about Great War rifles is those battle sights being set for those distances. Makes people think the guns are inaccurate and they end up changing the sight when sporterized. -N
I have a very tasteful and very early sporterization of a U.S. Mod. of 1917. All Winchester.
Hey thanks for believing in us my man. Super jelly on the Winchester m1917, big Winchester fanboy over here -N
I also have an all Winchester U.S. Model of 1917 sporteriaed in 1968 by me....
with Walnut Fajen stock and Bausch and Lomb 3x9 scope with Williams iron sights.....
and Williams scope mounts
I have a heavily sporterised M1917 Eddystone,, action bedded, floated Shilen single taper barrel, Timney trigger shimmed and reground sears, solid bedded mount for an 8-32 scope, 50's sporterised stock and chrome bluing. The actions get a plum type blue due to the nickel. best group so far is 5 shots in .313" at 100yards. Love my rifle
You need to create a way to project a silhouette of war scenes on the sheet plastic while filming your videos. Tanks moving behind you, soldiers marching. Battleships firing cannons. Airplane dog fights, etc. Turn the lights off behind the plastic and see if projecting images can be seen clearly on the viewing side. Cool idea.
Beautiful rifle. I know where one is, but the LGS wants one and a half K.
We’ll get there, getting a better background is on the agenda. Never thought of projecting on it though. Also the price tag for that M1917 sounds about right in today’s market. -N
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new sub here......nice review of the Model of 1917...cheers from an old fart in Orlando, Paul...and owner of a 1917 Winchester U.S. Model of 1917, unfortunately Sporterized by me in 1968 when I was a young lad.....but very well done....I must say...
@ypaulbrown minus points for sporterizing it BUT plus points for realizing the beauty of the stock rifle and at least doing it well. -N
Best Rifle WW1 🤔
i found a Remington made 1917 sporter that turned out to be an action up custom rifle. i bought it for 199$!
Does it have all the U.S. stamps or does it have model 30 on it? -N
@@SurplusBoysChannel it is not a model 30, it was a gov built rifle in the low 60k serial range made in feb 1918. it shoots fantastic. i
Oooo nice, that’s actually the same price I bought the model 30 for. -N
No need to pull stripper clip! Closing bolt removes it.
True that. In the flow of trying to remember what to say during filming we completely forgot to yeet that clip into the next dimension. -N