Also maybe a P14 or Remington Model 30 that's been restocked, but 1917 is the most likely. Should have some markings that help, somewhere.
Very strong, heavy, and once popular for custom elephant guns like .416s.
EDIT: Now that I've read the whole post, I'd bet on P14, though likely more of them were made here than in Britain.
A guy I used to see on a public range had an experimental P14 chambered in 7.92x57, allegedly for research during the war. One day he was shooting it a couple of benches over and apparently mixed a .308 in his 8mm ammo pile. I heard a funny report, then was hit by a small chunk of the extractor. He suffered some minor powder burns and brass bits in his nose and the floorplate was bent pretty good, somewhat worse than what happened when my son fired a .30/06 in a pre-64 that had been rechambered to some .300 mag, but not marked as such.
Nice rifle, OP.
Last edited by Pappy348; 11/28/19.
