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Teach
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Another pawn shop rescue!
Teach
Posts: 18,428 Senior Member
My travels take ma back and forth to Memphis and points beyond pretty often, and today was no exception. On the way back from a job in Jonesboro Arkansas I finally stopped at a pawn and gun shop I've noticed just east of Memphis to do some browsing. There, gathering dust, was a sporterized 1917 Eddystone. Somebody had already rubbed some of the ugly off of it- - - -milled the elephant ears off the rear sight area, straightened out the trigger guard, fitted it to a Reinhardt Fajen stock, and installed a single-stage trigger and a cock-on-opening firing pin. Yep- - - -they butchered a classic!
This one has had a pretty popular rechambering done- - - -it's now a 300 Win. Mag. I haven't put a tape measure on the barrel yet, but it looks like it hasn't been bobbed off- - - -it's at least a 24" and possibly as much as 26. No scope, but it does have a set of Weaver-type mounts front and rear.
Yep, I pretty much stole this one, too, but it took some hard bargaining! Pics soon- - - - -gotta drive another 300+ miles tomorrow, and I'm headed for bed in just a few minutes!
Jerry
Well it looks like I might have gotten a better deal than I bargained for- - - -or not- - - - -depending on whether or not a somewhat exotic chambering happens to be a good thing. When "300 Mag" is stamped on the chamber, and the counter guy says it's a "300 Winchester Magnum", it ain't necessarily so! Yes, the bolt face and the extractor have been hogged out to take a belted magnum case head, and there's a belt cut at the back of the chamber, but a .300 Win. Mag cartridge stops about an inch short of fully chambering. Anybody got a guess what a 1917 Enfield can be rechambered to that would create the above scenario? .300 H&H, maybe? I've got to make a chamber casting to be sure, but I think I just might have stumbled upon a classic African plains game rifle from somewhere in the early 1950's or before! Even a blind hog finds an acorn sometimes!
Jerry
This one has had a pretty popular rechambering done- - - -it's now a 300 Win. Mag. I haven't put a tape measure on the barrel yet, but it looks like it hasn't been bobbed off- - - -it's at least a 24" and possibly as much as 26. No scope, but it does have a set of Weaver-type mounts front and rear.
Yep, I pretty much stole this one, too, but it took some hard bargaining! Pics soon- - - - -gotta drive another 300+ miles tomorrow, and I'm headed for bed in just a few minutes!
Jerry
Well it looks like I might have gotten a better deal than I bargained for- - - -or not- - - - -depending on whether or not a somewhat exotic chambering happens to be a good thing. When "300 Mag" is stamped on the chamber, and the counter guy says it's a "300 Winchester Magnum", it ain't necessarily so! Yes, the bolt face and the extractor have been hogged out to take a belted magnum case head, and there's a belt cut at the back of the chamber, but a .300 Win. Mag cartridge stops about an inch short of fully chambering. Anybody got a guess what a 1917 Enfield can be rechambered to that would create the above scenario? .300 H&H, maybe? I've got to make a chamber casting to be sure, but I think I just might have stumbled upon a classic African plains game rifle from somewhere in the early 1950's or before! Even a blind hog finds an acorn sometimes!
Jerry
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Jerry
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JAY
Make him bring the 610 too
Jerry Nice acquisition
I've never set foot in a pawn shop but am starting to get tempted
My local pawn shop has a good inventory and lowest prices in town prices for new guns. I've found some nice stuff in pawn shops, sometimes they know what they have, but a lot of them are idiots.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
or making a lot
Nope- - - -too many permanent modifications by milling machine and welder. The modified chamber is the simple one- - - -just rebarrel, if the barrel can be removed without trashing the receiver. P-14/US 1917 barrels must have been installed by King Kong with a 6-ft. cheater bar. They're almost impossible to remove. I usually do a plunge cut with a lathe cutoff tool about 1/32" ahead of the receiver to relieve most of the torque on the threads, and they're still nearly impossible to turn. Then those SQUARE threads are a P I T A to cut on a new barrel blank.
Jerry
Jerry
Ouch! 3 bucks a pop for empty brass!
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/112095/nosler-custom-reloading-brass-300-h-and-h-magnum-box-of-25?cm_vc=ProductFinding
Jerry
http://www.brownells.com/reloading/brass/rifle-brass/norma-25-count-boxes-prod54806.aspx?avs|Cartridge_1=CDD_300 HzzxzzH Magnum
http://www.brownells.com/reloading/brass/rifle-brass/nosler-brass-prod35836.aspx?avs|Cartridge_1=CDD_300 HzzxzzH Magnum
JAY
As soon as I get a chamber cast done, that would definitely be an option! Now I've got to try to remember where I stashed my CerroSafe! I suppose Paraffin would be sufficient to get a ballpark guess on the chamber shape- - - -not much else that looks like an H&H case!
Jerry
JAY
Thanks!
Jerry
Well for a normal well balanced human being that would be true, but me I want to Horde everything and will pass up selling something where I could make a small fortune because I'm infatuated with it,:silly: :tooth:
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Yep, lob the ears off and call it "Bubba." But it's a damn nice bubba. I know a lot of 03-A3s and Enfields were made into 300s of one variety or another. There's a lot of 308 Norma Mags out there too, because of this. They didn't need that long an action but they were very popular in the 50s before the 300 Win. Mag came along. But if you look at velocities, there's not really any practical difference in the old H&H all the way up through the Weatherby. They are all great chamberings and the H&H takes a back seat to non of them. It, afterall, is the daddy.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
JAY
Thanks!
Jerry