looking for a P14 barrel
- Thread starter Bruce Drake
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SWISS SHOOTER
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Hey if anyone wants to build anything, that's just fine.
Just some advice from a 50 year collector of military rifles.
Just some advice from a 50 year collector of military rifles.
SWISS SHOOTER
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I just might buy that one at auction and build this as I have a mint A5 scope.
Bruce Drake
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Considering that nearly every P14 went through a rebuild in the 1930s by the British, having another barrel and stock mated to the action will not be any different than a Weeden rebuild. Tribute rifle? That's exactly what its going to be. My maternal Great grandfather served in WWI with a P14 (7th Battalion Welsh Regiment - stationed at Tees in defense of Scotland as a territorial unit) he later emigrated to the US in the 1920's and married a local gal in Maine.
Cadillac Jeff
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I wish you luck Sir. I am sure it will make a fine rifle , I do know a local "ol guy" I can ask about a barrel.
Jeff
Jeff
Bruce Drake
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Cadillac Jeff
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no answer on his cell tonight I will try him again tomorrow----& let ya know'
Jeff
Jeff
Charles Graff
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I had a nice P-14 barrel that was given to me by a friend in a batch of barrels. I cut it up and turned much of it into a handle for my 1950's Pacific Super C reloading press. The rest of it, I turned into a straight line bullet seating die. At least my press handle has rifling in it.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I can recall when '14's and '17's used to come into the shop all the time. They were $40-60 rifles back then. Most were sporterized with a hand saw and a hacksaw and were uglier than sin. No clue whatever happened to them all, but they were getting traded in on 742 Rems in '06 or Rem 700's in whatever the latest whizbang round was hot at the time, maybe the 7 mag.
Bruce Drake
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I've got a gunsmith who normally builds rifles for the US Palma Long Range Rifle Team who is willing to make me a Pattern 1914 barrel stub from 4140 carbon steel stock and then interior thread it for a 20" carbine barrel-length Savage 340 barrel in 30-30 with a locknut controlling the headspace like a Savage 110 as a proof of concept approach to make the rifle into a sporter. Once we are comfortable with this, we will rethread a longer rifle length barrel in order for it to be brought back to an exterior view of being a P14 Bisley Match rifle again. He's put me on the wall for machine time in January so I'll be mailing him the various components over the next couple of weeks to start the process.
Cadillac Jeff
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Sorry Bruce, It's a no got here in Michigan !!
maybe a p17 but no p14
maybe a p17 but no p14
Bruce Drake
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we'll see! There are several barrels on ebay currently (its where I just got this one)
Bruce Drake
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Once we can prove the Savage locknut theory, There will be a new barrel put on it. A Savage 340 barrel in 30-30 will not be a match accurate barrel but it gets the rifle shooting again.
Bruce Drake
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I've got a plan to get a new barrel in actual 303 British put on it for its eventual rebuild as a "Bisley Rifle" And if the savage locknut/barrel sleeve option works, I'll probably re-activate another P14 action I have on the shelf with a custom barrel in 25-303 (since I have the dies) or potentially a 7mm-303 wildcat based off the work another NRA highpower shooter has done with a No4 Enfield a few decades back that he calls a 7mm Confederate (I'll probably keep it labelled as a 7mm-303 since I'm a Yankee) if I can convince PTG to cut a chamber reamer for it (the original wildcatter reformed his 303 brit brass with a 7x57 die set.
Sadly, Gunsmiths are getting scarce and I may eventually be forced to resource my own lathe work in the future
fiver
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they done got real scarce around here quite some time back.
i know one personally that was in the guild and some of his work was featured on the cover of stuff like Rifle magazine.
he gave it up to go drive a truck in north Dakota for a while, when he come back he went out to the mine.
hate to see talent like that go to waste, but,, money is money.
i know one personally that was in the guild and some of his work was featured on the cover of stuff like Rifle magazine.
he gave it up to go drive a truck in north Dakota for a while, when he come back he went out to the mine.
hate to see talent like that go to waste, but,, money is money.