Only Americains need to use the correct term,M1917.I don't know what the Canadian and British called theirs doing WWII.They were used as Home Guard weapons.

The P-12 was designed for a magnum 7mm,so it's heavy.But it is also long enough with easy mods for H&H length cartridges.Both the Remington and the Winchester are well made.Remington did mods to the design to get the M-30,M-30S and M-720.They did it the right way for cock-on-opening.The more common Eddystone can be variable.My Ex-Canadian Army Eddystone is a 308Norma.I call it a P-17

Hi, and thnx for the reply's.

The salesman say it's a P17, but out of the pictures i can see it is done some work on it. Scope base's are mounted and there is no front sight's left.

After some thinking i have concluded that i already have 3 mauser actions,(M98K), and can build som custom by those instead.

But a original Lee would be nice to have

the p14/m17 can take durn near ANY round in the world.. I've even seen one with a screw off barrel for a 50 bmg

the 500 jeffe WAS the biggest round one could tuck into a mauser, until the 550 express was conceived

jeffe

Do a search on here for any posts by "Mauser98", he probably has more experiance then most of us with these guns, and does extremely nice work. - Dan

NorHunter, the original P13 would have been a powerful 7mm to replace the old Lee Enfield, but when WWI began there was no time for that so it was modified to the P14 in .303 and production began for the Brits in the US. Then when the US came into WWI in 1917 we did not have enough Springfield 1903s so the gun was modified again to .30'06 as the P17 and millions were made, in fact, more US soldiers carried the P17 in WWI than the Springfield. Many were shipped to the Brits after they lost all their equipment at Dunkirk in 1940. The remaining guns were retained as a war reserve in the US for decades but after WWII they were sold off to members of the American NRA at $7.50 each. Thousands were converted into sporters, so many, in fact, that unaltered military models have become rather valuable. Those made at Eddystone are considered the least desirable for sporters, Winchesters next, Remingtons the best. But as others have noted they require an immense amount of work and unless you want a very large calibre they are less desirable than an 1898 Mauser.