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Marks are too deep to sand out and save the pieces. They are just fire wood now.

Peter's description of a long barrel 1inch pistol with added support handle is a design developed and used by the firm Schumerley. It fires a rocket launched line thrower.

The RAF used Webley...

I found this interesting odd ball at a shop in Pennsylvania. It is entirely hand made using an SMLE as the pattern. I wish the craftsman would have signed his work.

When the trigger is pulled,...

Australian No.1 cutaways have a unique serial number located on the right side of the front trigger guard screw boss located on the receiver. Some are also marked efd indicating work was done at...

Peter am I wrong in thinking that SKN numbers only appear on No.4's and never on No.1 cutaways? Have you ever seen a No.1 MkV cutaway? Just asking the question, I can hear the milling machines...

I am sure you will be marking it properly as a reproduction. Otherwise future collectors will be confused.

While not a Lee Enfield these are of interest with less that 1500 having been produced. While most had the normal size butt, the bottom one has the scarcer "L" long butt. Cartridges and stripper...

Shown are three rifles from my collection. The bottom rifle has the longer "L marked" butt. They are not commonly encountered or the cartridges and stripper clips for that matter.

The Ross Book has a chapter on M10 blowups written by an engineer, Dupris. You seem to be plowing old ground.

Thanks to you both. I just realized that I naturally assumed that the Pattern 1913 being made at Enfield would have the Enfield Inch thread and the US produced Pattern 1914 would be SAE thread. ...

I have a problem with a Pattern 1913 (not a Pattern 1914) rifle that has sling swivel screws made with holes drilled in the end of the threaded portion of the screw. Apparently the factory set the...

From my collection, N (Navy issue) and Royal Marine marked Lee Enfield rifles:

Naval marked guns have the N on the left socket side. The first example shown in this thread is a serial number...

I had one that had a tendency to go full auto. I fiddled with it but could never figure out what part had failed. Finally broke it up and sold it as parts.

It is a good deal if you can sell it immediatly tomorrow for what you paid today. I wonder at their resale value. I don't collect Mausers but I wouldn't buy one of theirs as a personal opinion.

Contact with Leopold confirms the scope was made in 1990.

This scope has picket post and cross hair recticule, not duplex and has 7/8 inch tube diameter, 2.5x (same as Lyman Alaskan). 1990 vintage I am sure would be 1 inch dia. tube.

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Attached are photos of the unusual No.4 Mk1*Long Branch sniper rifle set up by the retired employee.

From left to right:

1 Receiver with no markings, unusual elongated trigger mechanism.
2 ...

When Springfield Sporters imported huge batches of rifles from India and the far east they pop riveted the numbered aluminum band around the trigger guard bow. I don't know why as the bands are...

If drawings are not available, in the car business we had a machine that ran a probe over a clay model generating a surface program that a draftsman used to generate the drawing/CNC program. Or...

I have been looking at an odd ball No.4 Mk1* (T) with Griffin & Howe mount and rings that Ian Skennerton twisted my arm into buying at the Tulsa show about fifteen years ago. We took it apart at the...

I have examples with and without the unique checkered forestock. Some were rebuilt with smooth forestocks during the reworks following Dunkirk. I like it as it stands and would not attempt to...

Peter, you touched a nerve. Car manufacture is cost driven, a penny saved per car over a million car run is money in the bank. During a model year changes might be saved up and all done at a...

Why you don't hear about these holes today is the reason that ammunition has improved to the point that you seldom get a brass failure anymore (reloads excepted). The brass material used in...

Mine is like yours but in .45 LC.

Cogswell & Harrison was purchsed by Interarmco (more commonly known in US as Interarms) about 1959 and the staff was put to work converting surplus arms into sporting configurations that they hoped...