Pete, you are correct. 303 was the classic British Enfield caliber
1917 Winchester Enfield
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My first 1917 30-06 rifle was $25 from a school mate.
I got off the school bus at his stop. Went to his house and bought the rifle with cold cash.
Then walked the 2 miles or so back home with the full military rifle proudly displayed over my shoulder.
No big deal then.
The last of them that I owned were in the early 2000's. I would go to the OGCA show and buy ones for anywhere from $100 to $200.
Then turn around and sell them on Auction Arms for a very nice profit.
Should have kept one particular Remington 1917 that was just about perfect and shot as well too. But it went away as well for a lot of money at that time.
I am almost 1917-less now except for a Remington Model 30-Express in 30-06 of course. A mid 1930's rifle in 90+% condition. Lyman 48 site factory orig. It sat unloved at a show.
Marked at $290, as soon as I asked to look at it the dealer said I could have it for $250...he was sick of dragging it around!
Looked it over and it came home with me. That was at the last show I went to before the covid shutdown.
Why no one wanted it is still a mystery to me.
Lack of plastic maybe.
I got off the school bus at his stop. Went to his house and bought the rifle with cold cash.
Then walked the 2 miles or so back home with the full military rifle proudly displayed over my shoulder.
No big deal then.
The last of them that I owned were in the early 2000's. I would go to the OGCA show and buy ones for anywhere from $100 to $200.
Then turn around and sell them on Auction Arms for a very nice profit.
Should have kept one particular Remington 1917 that was just about perfect and shot as well too. But it went away as well for a lot of money at that time.
I am almost 1917-less now except for a Remington Model 30-Express in 30-06 of course. A mid 1930's rifle in 90+% condition. Lyman 48 site factory orig. It sat unloved at a show.
Marked at $290, as soon as I asked to look at it the dealer said I could have it for $250...he was sick of dragging it around!
Looked it over and it came home with me. That was at the last show I went to before the covid shutdown.
Why no one wanted it is still a mystery to me.
Lack of plastic maybe.
LVSteve
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No scope would be my guess.
My Remington 1917 has the most peculiar wood making the gun two different colors, left and right. I'm pretty certain it's not stain.
AJ
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Most of the folks nowadays can not shoot irons. They much prefer dots, lasers and scopes. Next will probably be some device that is radar guided. Irons are getting to be a thing of the past.
I acquired this 1917 when I was a junior in college. It was during the Summer between my junior and senior year of undergrad school. I was working as a Summer relief driver for Coca Cola. It rode back to the bottling plant in the cab with me.
This rifle was purchased from the gun shop of Walter McClanahan in Humboldt, TN. The price was $125.00 and the year was 1976. I still have this rifle and have put it to use in "vintage rifle" matches.
At 200 yards, slow fire my last two shots, from the slow fire prone position, were two X's. The first one was a "pin wheel" X and last shot hit and blew out the spotter from the X ring.
These rifles will shoot!
This rifle was purchased from the gun shop of Walter McClanahan in Humboldt, TN. The price was $125.00 and the year was 1976. I still have this rifle and have put it to use in "vintage rifle" matches.
At 200 yards, slow fire my last two shots, from the slow fire prone position, were two X's. The first one was a "pin wheel" X and last shot hit and blew out the spotter from the X ring.
These rifles will shoot!
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In keeping with the use of the King's English, there is no such word as irregardless.
If there were no nits, they wouldn't need picking.
Actually, regardless of what you think irregardless is a word. In this case the normal negation implied by the “ir” prefix acts as a modifier that intensifies the term.
It’s similar to inflammable and flammable which both mean the same thing. Both trace to Latin roots, inflamāre, which means “to inflame” or “setting on fire”, and flamāre, which means “to set on fire”.
In English, inflammable is the older of the two terms and flammable didn’t come into common use until the 1920 when flammable was adopted on warning labels to avoid any potential confusion.
AJ
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There is an article on the Remington Model 30 in the July issue of Guns magazine.
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