1917

[TRAP55]

First time I ever pressure washed a gun, but we had a plan, ...and it worked well. The hand guards were walnut, and the stock was a dried out fence post, of a yet to be determined wood.
We're doing this Remington first, then the Winchester, The Rem didn't group as well as the Win at the range. After a cleaning, the test fire at the range, and a pressure washer stuffed into the barrel, it knocked all kinds of garbage loose from the bore. More scrubbing produced black patches, and showed some deep lands and grooves with some mild pitting. Some more "shoot and clean" will be in order after it's back together.
Grendl, when we got the worst of the finish off, the stock was in about the same shape as yours. The wood underneath is as dry as a popcorn fart. W55 is cleaning the rest of the finish off with a tile cutter blade for a scrape. When he's done we'll give it a lacquer thinner scrub with steel wool.
There's a lot of grain separation from drying out, so we'll try sanding in a slurry of minwax sanding sealer. The sealer and sawdust will fill the checks, then we'll let it dry and rub it down with 0000 steel wool, before it gets a first coat of BLO.
This stock is going to be the test subject, if it turns out good, the Win stock will look much better. If "he" screws it up, I have a walnut replacement lined up at Boyds.

[Enfield47]

First time I ever pressure washed a gun, but we had a plan, ...and it worked well.

Hey no fair, that's cheating! You said I couldn't use water on mine to clean that nasty brown paint off.

It's interesting that these 1917 stocks are so dry and my P14 stock is completely oil soaked throughout. I would have thought the process to produce them would have been the same since they were made around the same timeframe.

Looking forward to see how it all turns out.

[TRAP55]

Your stock is walnut, these two are....well, the best description is a carved dried out fencepost. Best WAG right now, they "might" be birch, but this one has grain like pine or fir.
I used the pressure washer on the metal parts to get the black paint off.
Then after getting some stripper on my skin that burned like willy pete, and Will looking at me like "I ain't touching that", I used it at a distance to blow off the stripper from the stock. The stripper bubbled the finish, but didn't take it off. Works pretty good on skin though. Wiped the wood dry, and scraped off the gunk. I would sooner be elbow deep in lacquer thinner that use that stripper again!

[Enfield47]

LOL Yeah, that paint stripper does have a bit of a burn to it when it gets on your skin - been there, done that. I'm glad it at a least started to lift the paint off otherwise scraping it off would have been a nightmare.

[w55]

LOL Yeah, that paint stripper does have a bit of a burn to it when it gets on your skin - been there, done that. I'm glad it at a least started to lift the paint off otherwise scraping it off would have been a nightmare.

Yeah I use the same stuff at work to strip paint off bolts and first time used it did not pay attention lol.."may cause mild burning"

I need get a smart phone so can get the pics going.

I think one of the better buys though and should be neat when done.

Glad Trapp lives in gun friendly area, mine town is gun phobia central. Im sure someone would have reported 2 suspects with assault weapons in garage

[Enfield47]

Your stock is walnut, these two are....well, the best description is a carved dried out fencepost. Best WAG right now, they "might" be birch, but this one has grain like pine or fir.

I looked in my P14 / 1917 book and it said the original 1917 stocks were walnut and the replacement stocks were birch. So I believe your guess that it's birch wood is correct. They didn't mention any other wood being used for the stocks.

[w55]

Stock is finally stripped all old finish, one faint marking left, nothing else stamped.

Trapp has indicated no loafing so will get over after work this week and get busy.

Will have good before after as the othe 1917 is exact condition as this one.

[Grendl]

I finally got to shoot mine. Super sweet. Can't miss the 100 yd. gongs even in the dark.

Spent cases don't eject however. Extraction is fine but they just sit on the bolt and have to be lightly knocked off. That'll require some work :-/

[Bainter1212]

Hmmm....I just got around to cleaning mine up and hope to shoot it this weekend.

[TRAP55]

I finally got to shoot mine. Super sweet. Can't miss the 100 yd. gongs even in the dark.

Spent cases don't eject however. Extraction is fine but they just sit on the bolt and have to be lightly knocked off. That'll require some work :-/

Ejector is probably full of gunk. Pull the bolt all the way back. The ejector should be sticking out of the bolt face on the left side, and all the way into the slot in the bolt face.

[kendog4570]

I finally got to shoot mine. Super sweet. Can't miss the 100 yd. gongs even in the dark.

Spent cases don't eject however. Extraction is fine but they just sit on the bolt and have to be lightly knocked off. That'll require some work :-/

The original ejector is powered by a fragile integral flat spring that is easily broken. There is a coil replacement that ends this problem. I don't believe the gun has to be altered to use the newer ejector.
All the usual suspects sell them Sarco, Gun Parts, etc.

[Grendl]

Thanks Ken, just ordered one :-)

[TRAP55]

Was it broke?

[Grendl]

I ordered before checking but yes, broke.

[w55]

Got all the stain off first stock, just used blade and back scraping with the grain. Got shown how to use fine grit and linseed oil to make slurry that would fill fine cracks. Needs few more treatments.

This stock was really bad and dry, much like a old hand split post.

Trapp did most of this one for me and pretty sure the next ones mine to do.