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<blockquote data-quote="Ckgworks" data-source="post: 1486797" data-attributes="member: 105102"><p>I had to go google a bit......I don't know if I can trust my memory anymore! Here's a link to a Eddystone with the same bomb marking.....That same bomb stamp is often on Trench shotguns from the same era, with a US under it, So I don't know if it's a US stamp or a Enfield........Weird things happen in war time stamping and sometimes it can be hard to decipher them. In any event, from the little you can see in the pictures, it looks like it was nicely done, not Bubba job.....Figure out the chambering and tell him to enjoy it for what it is........Many people now don't understand the era these guns were from and can't understand how someone "wrecked them" by sporterizing them, but at the time it was the way to get a quality hunting rifle on the cheap! I kinda have a soft spot for these old sporters......It started from getting a old 1903 from a family friend when he passed that he had converted to 308 Norma Mag.....He packed that gun all over Washington and Alaska during times when everyone had more time than money.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/eddystone-m1917-enfield-rifle-cal.-30-06-7DB4935843" target="_blank">https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/eddystone-m1917-enfield-rifle-cal.-30-06-7DB4935843</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ckgworks, post: 1486797, member: 105102"] I had to go google a bit......I don't know if I can trust my memory anymore! Here's a link to a Eddystone with the same bomb marking.....That same bomb stamp is often on Trench shotguns from the same era, with a US under it, So I don't know if it's a US stamp or a Enfield........Weird things happen in war time stamping and sometimes it can be hard to decipher them. In any event, from the little you can see in the pictures, it looks like it was nicely done, not Bubba job.....Figure out the chambering and tell him to enjoy it for what it is........Many people now don't understand the era these guns were from and can't understand how someone "wrecked them" by sporterizing them, but at the time it was the way to get a quality hunting rifle on the cheap! I kinda have a soft spot for these old sporters......It started from getting a old 1903 from a family friend when he passed that he had converted to 308 Norma Mag.....He packed that gun all over Washington and Alaska during times when everyone had more time than money. [URL]https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/eddystone-m1917-enfield-rifle-cal.-30-06-7DB4935843[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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