Wanted: Full wood Stock for 1918 Lee Enfield

[Casey B]

Looking for a decent stock for a Lee Enfiled 1918 year. I am not sure if the stocks changed that much from war to war or to the now used Enfields by the Rangers?
Mine was sportized so i can use the Butt plate and some of the hardware to mount it but need the full wood and the hardware for the bayonette mount.

I know they are around but getting harder to find and would like to put the old mans rifle back to how it was.
Email me? thanks Casey

[Ed Storey]

The Canadian Rangers use No. 4 Mk I* Lee Enfields were as the Great War rifles were No. 1 Mk IIIs. The woodwork and fittings on these are different.

Here are a couple of images of WWI Lee Enfields.

[Casey B]

So I am looking for the prevebial needle in the huge haystack then. i did find a full stock on Ebay Australia but not sure it would fit. I see it won't. I'll check the Mk no.s on mine again to see but the date is 1918. Thanks for the photos. It had to be different didn't it? here's what mine looks like as it is now and the way my father got it in the 50's for hunting. I am not sure if the original stock was changed out or altered as I can't see the break/joint where the rear buttstock would attach...Any thoughts would be appreciated...?
Thank you

[Lang]

Might Help with SMLE. Looking at your photos you seem to have a US rifle not a British built Enfield. The US built over 1,000,000 of these during WW1 for the British. It was based on the SMLE and was .303. The Americans then made relatively minor alterations to the bolt, chamber etc to take their .30 ammunition and produced these for their own army. The manufacturers marks on the rifle should be easy to trace



Lang

[motto]

That aint no SMLE ! Looks like a Pattern 14 to me. These were adopted by the British in 1914 to supplement the standard service rifle (SMLE)when war broke out. They were made by three companies, Enfield in the UK and Winchester and Remington (at Eddystone and Ilion ) in the US. Later in the war the Americans modified the design to 30.06 calibre and produced it as the M17.
Some information is available on Google.

David

[Ed Storey]

For sure, it is not a Lee Enfield.

[Lang]

This is your rifle (the picture is actually the modified .30 American Army P17 rifle but can not be distinguished in a photo from the .303). British Rifle M1914 or P14. You should be able to get front woodwork easily in North America. The manufacturers in order of volume were Eddystone, Remington and Winchester.

[cletrac (RIP)]

If it's a 303 it's a P14.
It it's a 30-06 it's a P17.