U.S. Model 1917 Enfields

[Adam Helmer]

Gil,

I just received the magazine and read the P-17 article. There were a few minor glitches, but overall it was a good read.

I have the Winchester, Remington and Eddystone P-17s and the best of my lot is the Eddystone (actually a Remington-made rifle at Eddystone Arsenal near by Philadelphia). Most P-17s will shoot Ball ammo about a foot high at 100 yards with the Battle Sight, but my Eddystone P-17 puts Ball and my 150 grain spitzer handloads and 49 grains of IMR 4895 at +1 inch at 100 yards. My P-17 Eddystone is my farm carry gun and my deer rifle.

My grandfather, along with 65% of the Doughboys in WWI, carried a P-17 into the trenches in France. I can only hope any of my P-17s were also carried by my grandad, who I never knew.

I think the P-17 was a far better battle rifle than the M1903. I have many M1903s and P-17s and concur with the post WWI Bureau of Ordnance report to adopt the P-17 as Standard.

Adam