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Pattern 1914 Enfield
The Pattern 1914 (P 14) was chambered originally in a high velocity .276 caliber and then changed to .303 British when the experimental caliber proved to be troublesome. Remington and Winchester manufactured the rifle for the British in WW1. After the U.S. joined the Allies it was easy to convert the rifle to 30-06, which was important when the Federal Springfield Armory found it could not produce enough of the 1903 Springfield rifle to meet war demands. When the United States entered the war in 1917, they had approximately 600,000 Springfield rifles ready to go, but with a heavy recruitment rate (4,000,000 enlisted men before the end of the year) and the difficulty of producing 1903 Springfields (an average of 5,000 new rifles a month), the United States opted to mass-produce the Pattern 14 chambered in 30-06 for use overseas, renamed as the US Rifle, Caliber 30, Model 1917, though it was more commonly known as the Enfield 1917 in tribute to its birthplace, or even the P 17. Although United States troops carried both the 1917 Enfield and the 1903 Springfield in World War I, the Enfield was the primary United States service rifle during the war, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin.
Specifications
- Weight: 9 lb. 3 oz. (4.17 kg)
- Length: 3 ft. 10.25 in. (1175 mm)
- Barrel length: 26.0 in (660 mm)
- Cartridge: .30-06 Springfield (7.62x63mm)
- Action: Modified Mauser turn bolt
- Muzzle velocity: 2700 ft/s (823 m/s)
- Feed system: 6-round magazine, 5-round clip fed reloading
The M1917 Enfield rifle and variants can be seen in the following:
Film
- Carried by a Laotian in The 317th Platoon (1965)
- Posse member in Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- American Solders in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
- Seen on Col. Robert Neville Charlton Heston in The Omega Man (1971)
- Seen on a Gun Shelf in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in The Untouchables (1987)
- Used by several U.S. Army soldiers in King Kong (2005)
- Used by Nationalist Chinese soldiers in Assembly (Ji jie hao) (2007)
- French soldiers in Days of Glory (2006)
- Richmond's soldiers in Richard III (1995)
- U.S. honor guard soldiers in Spawn (1997)
- US Army soldiers in The Lost Battalion(2001)
Television
- Australian New South Wales Police in Police Rescue (1989-1996)