1917 Eddystone Revival

[Herb in Pa]

I broke down and had a new Criterion barrel installed on my 1917 Eddystone, also had it reparkerized. I'm using a no drill/tap scope mount with a vintage Weaver K3 scope. I fired a couple of 5 shot groups @ 50 yards.....it seems to like 17.5 grains of 2400 with the RCBS 168 grain sil boolet. I'm seating the boolit with a little bit of jam into the rifling which is a 10 twist button rifled and lapped bore. Group went into .976" for 5 with 4 in .396". May be just a fluke but testing will continue....I'm happy with the new barrel, gunsmith said it was within .015 of a perfect index in the timing mark.

[Uncle Grinch]

Very nice. I'm sure you will really enjoy it now that it's a "shooter".

[leadman]

Did you have the CMP do the work?
I recently bought a 1918 Eddystone that has a marginal barrel that has been counterbored. Thursday it scattered some LC surplus into about a 3' group.

Glad yours turned out so well and I am thinking of having the same thing done.

[Herb in Pa]

Did you have the CMP do the work?
I recently bought a 1918 Eddystone that has a marginal barrel that has been counterbored. Thursday it scattered some LC surplus into about a 3' group.

Glad yours turned out so well and I am thinking of having the same thing done.

I had a local gunsmith do the work, 2 week turnaround including the parkerizing:bigsmyl2:

[Ehaver]

That is a nice looking rifle.

Great groups too!

[John Allen]

One of my favorite guns. They shoot great.