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Posted: 5/11/2018 10:41:08 AM EDT
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Depends where you are, but $800 for a decent M1917 is not unusual anymore...shit's dried up, and prices just keep going up...unfortunately...
Right now, the best value in milsurps are Jap rifles, and Lee Enfields still...US stuff has been steadily climbing... If you can get a good one (1917) for $700 or less, I'd jump on it... |
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Posted: 5/11/2018 11:16:57 AM EDT
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I have an Eddystone, mint condition, all matching numbers. NOT FOR SALE
I don't have an answer for you but they are getting more scarce. Lots of examples of Bubba'd sporters out there but the original condition models are drying up. I really enjoy mine, its fun to shoot but it is a beast. |
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Posted: 5/11/2018 11:31:22 AM EDT
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I have an Eddystone, mint condition, all matching numbers. NOT FOR SALE
I don't have an answer for you but they are getting more scarce. Lots of examples of Bubba'd sporters out there but the original condition models are drying up. I really enjoy mine, its fun to shoot but it is a beast. there is only "one" number...on the receiver... |
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Posted: 5/11/2018 11:50:06 AM EDT
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Thanks for the info, y'all. Jist wanted to make sure I wasn't going to overpay for a rifle I swore was $600 or $700 a few years ago.
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Right now, the best value in milsurps are Jap rifles, and Lee Enfields still...US stuff has been steadily climbing... If you can get a good one (1917) for $700 or less, I'd jump on it... |
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Posted: 5/11/2018 12:06:01 PM EDT
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Thanks for the info, y'all. Jist wanted to make sure I wasn't going to overpay for a rifle I swore was $600 or $700 a few years ago. As much as I like the prospect of owning an Arisaka, I just don't like that you can't readily get or easily load ammo for it. I do already have an ROF Fazakerly No 4 MkII and a BSA Santa Fe imported No5 Jungle Carbine. Working on getting a top handgaurd on the Jungle Carbine, as it didn't come with one, but has the inlet for the handgaurd band. Ordered everything but the correct top HG for it last night, seems to be a bitch to find a jungle carbine top HG. Guess I'll have to have it fabricated out of a surplus No4 top HG. As far as the Arisaka goes...find one converted to .30-06, and Bob's your uncle... 
A lot actually were converted after WWII due to scarcity of 7.7 Jap.... |
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Posted: 5/11/2018 12:27:24 PM EDT
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I got my sept 1918 eddystone for 502 dollars out the door at gander mountain before they closed.
Smelled like lindseed oil and shoots great, i replaced the front sight post with a NOS post with a different height to get poa/poi dead nuts at 100 yards. |
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Posted: 5/11/2018 12:28:42 PM EDT
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Yeah, a couple of years ago they running about that...but a couple of years can be a long time when collecting milsurps!.... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Thanks for the info, y'all. Jist wanted to make sure I wasn't going to overpay for a rifle I swore was $600 or $700 a few years ago. As much as I like the prospect of owning an Arisaka, I just don't like that you can't readily get or easily load ammo for it. I do already have an ROF Fazakerly No 4 MkII and a BSA Santa Fe imported No5 Jungle Carbine. Working on getting a top handgaurd on the Jungle Carbine, as it didn't come with one, but has the inlet for the handgaurd band. Ordered everything but the correct top HG for it last night, seems to be a bitch to find a jungle carbine top HG. Guess I'll have to have it fabricated out of a surplus No4 top HG. |
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Posted: 5/11/2018 1:07:34 PM EDT
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There are no "matching numbers" on an M1917... there is only "one" number...on the receiver... |
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Posted: 5/12/2018 12:43:14 AM EDT
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I picked up a really nice Eddystone a few weeks ago for $700, but almost all others I've seen are $800-1000 but thats gun show prices so ymmv.
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Posted: 5/12/2018 1:10:17 AM EDT
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Remington made the best M1917 (IMHO) They had a lot of practice on the P14 rifles.
2nd would be Winchester, but they had a lot of issues handfitting parts. Eddystone distant 3rd due to issues with heat treatment of receivers & cracking... |
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Posted: 5/14/2018 5:48:25 PM EDT
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Remington made the best M1917 (IMHO) They had a lot of practice on the P14 rifles. 2nd would be Winchester, but they had a lot of issues handfitting parts. Eddystone distant 3rd due to issues with heat treatment of receivers & cracking... The hand fitting on the Winchester M1917 rifles was limited to the first 10k or so (out of ~580K). The other two manufacturers waited until the drawings were standardized before making rifles. None of the test rifles submitted by any of the plants had interchangable parts. All M1917 receivers are Nickel Steel and very strong.There is no heat treat issue. The issue with the receivers cracking is from using improper technique to rebarrel. All receiver blanks came from the same company and were all the same steel mix. Any of the three manufacturers would crack if rebarreled improperly. Please do not perpetuate wives tales and hearsay. |
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Posted: 5/15/2018 5:57:08 PM EDT
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In a parking lot waiting to pay $500 for a Winchester right now.
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