1917 Remington

[woodusmc]

The rifle was given to my Father by my Grandfather and was passed down to me, earlier than I wanted. Anyhow, the rifle serial puts this rifle at December of 1918. I've been trying to figure out if it was sold as a model 30, most likely. Although the barrel has a bit more wear on the front few inches which would mean to me that there was at one point the military stock. Someone smith'd in an old Marble rear sight and did away with the milspec leaf sight and front sight or maybe it was done by Remington (Model 30) but the ears are still intact and the leaf sight nut is still stuck in the ear/receiver. I would really like to restore the rifle into military configuration since there are just a few signs that it was "sporterized". The stock doesn't show signs of 100 year old age either. Any help on this would be appreciated, suggestions, opinions etc. I hate the rear sights and I don't want to cut it up any further.

If this doesn't belong here let me know.

[woodusmc]

not sure how to post pics.

[Milsurp1]

Are you on the mobile website?

[woodusmc]

yeah. Laptop is at my shop. I figured that I'd have to get on pc

[Milsurp1]

[woodusmc]

Awesome! Thank you!

[woodusmc]

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[pacrat]

Others will be more concise. I'm no expert, more of an egg-spurt. But here's what I do know. It was NOT a Md-30. It began life as a 1917.

Frnt sight had the ears filed off and a different bead installed. It is MARTIALLY stamped with flaming bombs. Stock is cut down military. Md 30s didn't have sight ears on rear ring of receiver. Your 17 still has the stepped bottom metal [military]. Md 30s had flat bottom metal.

You can refurb it back to original mil spec. Hopefully the handguard would cover the dovetail from later sight install.

But it would be spendy and time consuming to source all the parts. Why not just shoot/enjoy it as Grandpa intended?

That's my 2 cents.

[woodusmc]

I love the response. I do hope we get more. I have an affinity for milspec weapons. Even though it was my Grandfathers I hate that it was modified. That being said, returning it to its glory days would not be an inconvenience and in fact, in my opinion, would do a great justice for my father and the history of the rifle.

[blackrat]

I have a sporterized m17. Yours is much closer to stock than mine was as mine had its ears ground off and lyman diopter tapped into the side. You can find original stocks and most parts pretty easily on ebay. Is yours still cock on open or has it been converted to cock on close?

[woodusmc]

Cock on close. Doesn't seem to bother me as I don't shoot matches.

[big50_1]

I have an Eddystone 1917 and just casual inspection indicates a lot of missing and/or damaged parts. I got parts for it from Numrich but I think they are now closed because of Covid. It would, in my opinion, be an expensive proposition even if you could get all the parts. The rear sight parts are missing, stock is cut down, upper band, lower band, new front sight and so forth.

[big50_1]

go to Numrich Gun Parts and ok up the schematic for the Model of 1917. You should be able to figure out the parts/cost to put it back together. parts that are not available from them maybe be gotten from Liberty Tree Collector. I’d work up some accurate, reduced rounds and enjoy it for what it is.

[big50_1]

...look up the schematic...

[big50_1]

Woodusmc-if you really want to put it back to original, get some field manuals. i guarantee the parts are out there somewhere. In the past, I had a P.38 WW 2 steel frame (the frame is the gun) and pulled together all the parts to make it functional. It took a while.