Open the bolt and ensure the rifle is unloaded.
Close bolt, place the rifle ON SAFE.
Flip the latch at the back of the receiver and remove the dust cover, recoil spring, bolt and bolt carrier.
Use the tip of an FMJ bullet or a screwdriver to depress the button immediately behind the trigger guard. Push down until you hear a click. Remove the trigger assembly from the rifle.
Remove the barreled action from the stock.
By your rear sight, raise the lever 45 degrees, or one notch. Do not raise it 90 just yet.
Pull off the front handguard and gas tube. Remove the gas piston from the gas tube.
Raise the lever to the 90 degree position, but be careful. The spring the gas piston hits to operate the bolt is going to come out. And possibly very fast. Hold a towel in the action in front of the bore before the sight to catch it.
There you have it. You MUST clean this thouroughly when using corrosive ammo.
Reassemble in reverse order.
1917 lee enfield
100-1000 USD depending on specifics
1918
Jan 1919
It indicates that the rifle was proof tested at the Birmingham England Proof House. bnp is Birmingam Nitro Proof (nitro means smokeless gunpowder)
I can say that Winchester made a total of 545,511 model of 1917 enfield rifles for the U.S. goverment from 1917-1919.I would say your rifle was made in 1918.
The U.S. Model of 1917 Winchester is a Model 1917 Enfield Military Rifle manufactured from 1917 - 1918, in this case, by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company of New Haven CT. It is a modified Mauser-type bolt action rifle chambered in 30-06. It has a 26
I believe the US 1917 and the P-17 follow the same procedures. The link at the bottom of this page is to the US 1917 section of surplusrifle.com. That is an excellent website with information on surplus rifles and handguns.
this will cost you a lot, take notice, it costs somewhere around 500,000,000,000 in yen.
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The "Model of 1917" is more commonly called the 'P17 Enfield' and was a standard US service rifle in WW-1 and in some arenas of WW-2. Winchester was just one of the makers, others being Remington and the arsenal at Eddystone. Would need to know the complete markings on either rifle to go further. sales@countrygunsmith.net
What you have is a U S model of 1917 (Commonly reffered to as the US enfield rifle which was made along with Remington and eddystone for the government during world war I .The Winchester rifle co.made a total of 545,511 rifles,of which yours was made in 1918.It is chambered for the .30 government cartridge,which is the 30-06 carrtridge.