The U.S. Model of 1917 has been getting a lot of press lately, including on this forum. I just received my NRA's "American Rifleman" magazine and it has an article of this rifle in it, also. Below is an article from Popular Mechanics in it's March 1918 issue. It is interesting to read these two articles that are 100 years apart.

My Dad bought a sporterized version of this rifle through the mail some time before the Gun Control Act Of 1968, either from Sears or Montgomery Wards. He doesn't remember, but I have found old advertisements of this rifle only from Sears (endorsed  by Ted Williams). It was Dad's deer hunting rifle into the 1990's when he stopped hunting. A few years back I reconditioned his rifle. The butt pad was dry rotted and the sprayed on finish was in bad shape and getting cloudy. Otherwise it got tore down and cleaned. A brass skeleton pistol grip cap was added. When I gave it back to him he insisted that I keep it. We went back and forth. I finally kept it as that is what he wanted.

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