After two weeks of suffering through one of the worst cases of the Ick in recent memory, I finally got around to looking over my M1917 sporter a little more closely. It looks to be an 1918 Eddystone reciever. According to an article on the CMP website, the two groove barrel was installed by Johnson Automatics during WWII. The gun has many parts from both Eddystone and Winchester. Make no mistake, this is a big overbuilt gun for 30-06. I suppose at some point I could convert it to a 458 Eargisplittenloudenboomer.
They don't make'm like this anymore, at least at prices that the everyday Joe can afford.
The scope is a classic old-school Weaver K4 on a one piece Redfield mount. The stock looks to be made of walnut? There is a bad finish job on it. On the inside are many signs of hand fitting and hand tool use. Maybe on off-the-shelf 90% finished stock? Beautiful grain and swirly stuff under the bad dye job. Whatever the stock is made of, it is a heavy hard wood. Real heavy. My milsurp Mauser stocks are lighter. The sandpaper and Tung Oil are waiting.

On a whim I purchased the cock-on-opening kit from Numrichs. Installation was a breeze. Instead of a heavy bolt effort and a 6 lb trigger. I now have a very short 2lb trigger and a much lighter bolt effort. A little polishing here and there should smooth things out even more. However the take-up I once had with the old set-up is now manifested as overtravel. Lots of overtravel.

What is the best way to install an overtravel adjustment to a stock M1917 trigger?

Thanks
ZM

The answer is in Dunlap's gunsmithing book. He suggested brass, I used aluminum because it was handy.

Glue a small piece of aluminum 1/16" thick in the stock just behind where the trigger passes through. As the trigger is pulled. the trigger bar? pivots downward, contacts the aluminum and prevents further trigger movement. There is plenty of space between the reciever and the stock to acomplish this.
Now I have a nice 2-3lb trigger with no overtravel. Off to the gravel pits to shoot something.

ZM

Almost all M1917 are a mixmaster of parts.Between the wars the armories rebulit them for something to do,all parts are supposed to be interchangeable.