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1917 Eddystone Rebuild?
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<blockquote data-quote="Privi457" data-source="post: 1928590" data-attributes="member: 114626"><p>Nostalgia cannot supplant reality. I own 5 high end 1930s sporting 03s. Beautiful rifles and work fine BUT to duplicate one today would cost more than a high grade Cooper, Custom shop 700 or high end Weatherby and be nowhere near as good a rifle.</p><p></p><p>To fix a P14/17 you must:</p><p>-mill off the ears</p><p>-level ot floorplate</p><p>-change to COO</p><p>-put on a new bolt handle</p><p>-open up the bolt face</p><p></p><p>Now you have a huge heavy action with 100 year old metalurgy with no resale value.</p><p></p><p>If you want a P14/17 high grade sporter, plenty show up at high end gunshops and the big auction houses, like this.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/custom-rifles/tom-shelhammer-custom-enfield-458-win-mag.cfm?gun_id=101429378[/URL]</p><p></p><p>To duplicate it today would cost twice the asking price and would not have a Shellhammer stock.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Privi457, post: 1928590, member: 114626"] Nostalgia cannot supplant reality. I own 5 high end 1930s sporting 03s. Beautiful rifles and work fine BUT to duplicate one today would cost more than a high grade Cooper, Custom shop 700 or high end Weatherby and be nowhere near as good a rifle. To fix a P14/17 you must: -mill off the ears -level ot floorplate -change to COO -put on a new bolt handle -open up the bolt face Now you have a huge heavy action with 100 year old metalurgy with no resale value. If you want a P14/17 high grade sporter, plenty show up at high end gunshops and the big auction houses, like this. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/custom-rifles/tom-shelhammer-custom-enfield-458-win-mag.cfm?gun_id=101429378[/URL] To duplicate it today would cost twice the asking price and would not have a Shellhammer stock. [/QUOTE]
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