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Thanx Hallye

Please tell us the details and BTW Happy BDay!

Well I'm no expert but here goes. According to the description at the auction. It is a Winchester made 1917 Enfield 30-06. The serial number online shows it was made in Dec. 1917. The barrel bore looks new but is original military because it has the bomb thing. The metal looks great and the blue is also. The trigger is kind of heavy also the 2 staged original. The triggerguard has been straightened (Whatever that means?) The stock is really nice walnut and that is what I liked because the checkering according to a ruler is 28 lines in an inch. Still pretty sharp. The checkering is a sort of geometric look. Overlapping sections. Our gunsmith said it is the best he has seen in a long time. Recoil pad is one of those old red ones people are crazy for. My cousin told me someone had ground the ears off and it is drilled for a scope and has a peep sight. It has a new bolt handle the other one my cousin called Dog leg. It is heavy but that is good because I want a 375HH one day. If I don't find a nice old one I will try to convert it.(not me!) I shoot off a stick thing in Montana so if I get tired lugging it around I'm still steady. When I saw it I thought it was new. That's all I know. Thanx for the b'day wish. Hallye

I'd like to see better photos of the checkering. The pics aren't very clear but I think I see something recognizable. If so, you'll be very happy.

I might see what you see. When we get closer pictures, we'll know.

The original Enfield design was built around a 7mm Enfield cartridge. When World War I broke out, the British modified the rifle to use the standard .303 British service cartridge and renamed it Pattern 14 (P14). The P14 was manufactured in the United States by Remington and Winchester. When the US entered the war, there were insufficient 1903 Springfields to arms the troops, so the basic Enfield design was altered again and the tooling at Remington and Winchester was used to produce the M1917 version in caliber .30-'06 for the US government. The magazine in the Enfield was large enough to hold six .30-'06 cartridges, which resulted in a deeper magazine than most Americans thought necessary, so in the process of sporterizing the magazine was reduced in capacity to five and the trigger guard modified to permit that. The procedure is generally referred to as "straightening" the trigger guard, although it usually involves cutting and welding the portion of the trigger guard in front of the magazine, where the original guard had a step.

This was the best I could do.
Thanx

Hallye

Not what I thought I saw originally. Still a nice gun. Congrats.

Flygas, not what I thought I was looking at either. Maybe you could PM me with information. I will be honest about what I thought.