Model 1917 Eddystone with iron sights out to 600 yards?

[Poper]

Dang right!
Good shooting with windy conditions. Couldn't be done without an excellent shooting rifle, though.

Model 1917 Amazing Accuracy from WWI Rifle!

I absolutely love Model 1917 Rifle! In my humble opinion, this is one of the best WWI era rifles!Ps. Happy Thanksgiving!Chapters:0:00 Intro0:24 M1917 in Acti...

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I am not an aficionado of milsurps, but I think I now understand why so many of these guns were sporterized into beautiful, fine shooting custom rifles!

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Love that fellas' enthusiasm, lol. Nice shootin for sure as well.

I dunno if I woulda taken an M1917 over an '03 if given the choice, simply because the '17 is such a boat anchor. It does have a better combat sights for sure.
I have both and they are both very accurate with good ammo, although my two-groove 03A3 outshoots both of the WW1 guns.

If I HAD to slog through the trenches, however, I'd be looking to aquire an SMLE.....

 

[doubleh]

I am not into old military rifles at all but back in the'70's I ran across a '17 that had been rebarreled and I bought it for the princely sum of $35. My intention was to build a deer rifle for my wife and that is what I did. It took some research and found that High Standard had rebarreled a bunch of these rifles.. I went to work on it without ever firing it and gave it the full treatment . Receiver ground to accept model 70 scope rings, bolt straightened and cut off, floor plate straightened with trigger guard slimmed, lathe marks on the barrel removed and polished, slow rust blued, Timney trigger, and a northern walnut stock from Herter's, inletted, shaped, accraglassed, checkered, and finished. It shot MIA or slightly less with Remington 150 gr. CoreLoked ammo. The only work I did not do was drill and tap it for scope bases as I wasn't set up for that. A friend had a side business just drilling and tapping rifles and I had him do it. It weighed 9 1/2# with a 2 X 7 scope. When my wife became tired I would sling it over my shoulder and carry it for her until she had rested up. She gave it to our oldest grandson a few years ago and he finally got to hunt with it two years ago and harvested a nice mulie. I never bothered to take a picture of it but is no bubba job.

 

[AlexanderA]

I am not into old military rifles at all but back in the'70's I ran across a '17 that had been rebarreled and I bought it for the princely sum of $35. My intention was to build a deer rifle for my wife and that is what I did. It took some research and found that High Standard had rebarreled a bunch of these rifles.

Beware of rebarreled Eddystones, with either commercial barrels or High Standard (or Johnson Automatics) WW2 barrels. The problem is that the Eddystone factory overtorqued the original barrels. They're OK with the original barrels, but hairline cracks in the receiver rings sometimes developed when the original barrels were removed. These cracks are barely visible. To be on the safe side, such a receiver should be Magnaflux tested. (The proper way to remove an Eddystone barrel is by cutting a relief groove in the barrel, in a lathe, just ahead of the receiver ring. Presumably that barrel would be trashed anyway, or else there would be no reason to remove it.)

Not a problem with Winchester or Remington M1917's.

 

[luv2safari]

One of the best shooting rifles I ever owned was a 1917, re-chambered to 308 Norma Mag. I also had one that was re-barreled to 458 Win Mag. It went up to a famous bear guide in Alaska who carries a famous beat up 458.