The strength and stiffness of the action and the comparatively heavy barrel contributed to a well-deserved reputation for accuracy.Д¬onscripts of the Estonian Sakala Partisan Battalion with P14 rifles in 1939 or 1940. It is a large, strong action, and the bolt travel is long, as it was designed for a powerful cartridge.

Like the Lee Enfield, the safety falls under the firer's thumb and can be operated silently. The unusual 'dog-leg' bolt handle is low profile and places the knob close to the firer's hand, again facilitating rapid fire. Much faster and smoother to operate than a Model 98 Mauser, the bolt was well-supported throughout its travel and the camming action on opening and closing the bolt facilitated ease and speed of operation.

The bolt had a Mauser type claw extractor and two forward lugs there was also a rear safety lug formed by the base of the bolt handle sitting in a recess in the receiver. There were also volley-fire sights similar to those on the SMLE fitted to the left side of the weapon for use up to 2600 yards, though these were of little use and were usually deleted when the weapon was refurbished. The P14 featured a superbly designed aperture rear sight adjustable to 1600 yards and a 300yd battle setting protected by integral and prominent 'ears' on the receiver bridge. The P14 was an advanced design for the time, and was said to be the most advanced service rifle of World War I. Cock-on-opening actions became more difficult to operate when heated by rapid fire as the effort to open the bolt had to overcome the striker spring to cock the action as well as unsticking the fired case from the chamber. The action was essentially a Mauser design with some Lee features and optimised for rapid fire, with the action cocking on closing, a feature highly valued by the British Army with its emphasis on riflemen highly trained for rapid fire, but less valued in other armies, such as the US or Germany, where cock-on-opening designs such as the M1903 Springfield and Mauser 98 were preferred. With its prominent sight protection ears on the receiver, 'dog-leg' bolt handle and 'pot-belly' magazine, it was distinctive in appearance. 303 Pattern 1914 (P14), a competent design fed from a five-round internal magazine. An advanced new rifle using a modified Mauser-pattern action was built to fire it, the Pattern 1913 Enfield (P13) effective mass production was still some way off when World War I started, to say nothing of the logistical nightmare of introducing a new rifle cartridge in wartime, so nothing came of it.ДЄdapting the design to fire the standard. This smaller, high-velocity round prompted the War Department to develop their own 'magnum' round, the.

Rifle M1917 Enfield.Дuring the Boer War the British were faced with accurate long-range fire from the famous Mauser rifles, model 18, in 7x57mm caliber. The P14 was the successor to the P13 Enfield and the predecessor of the U.S. It served as a sniper rifle and as second line and reserve issue until being declared obsolete in 1947. A bolt action weapon with an integral 5-round magazine, it was principally contract manufactured by companies in the United States.

303 Pattern 1914 (or P14) was a British service rifle of the First World War period. Manual, as determined by skill of operator Sniper (telescopic and unmagnified), grenade launcher, US M1917 rifle

Pattern 14 enfield stock