Thread: They don't make 'em like they used to...

Here's a P14 (Winnie) that I picked up off Tardme a couple weeks ago, along side one of my BPAG's. Not much different considering there's 50 odd years between designs. The bottom wood is repro, top woods are original.

She's in pretty good nick bore-wise and the action is tight. I bought it as a shooter, not a collector/wall hanger.

For something mass produced in early 1917, she still shoots well. I churned out some loads using 40 grains of 2208 pushing a 174 SMK (.311") and gave her a blat today at the Auckland DA range. The peep sight seems to be set for 300 yards and the battle sight starts at 200 yards. I ended up sticking a 4"dayglo dot on the bottom of a DA 100m target and aimed at that through the battle sight on it's lowest setting. Here are a couple of 5 shot groups.

I thought 2.8" was pretty bloody good for a 96 year old battle rifle with original sights.

Who else has got a nice old shooter out there?

Ray.