recently acquired No. 5 Mk 1

[crowtalks]

I had an opportunity to grab a jungle carbine at a great price recently and I snatched it up...

My Dad always traded on guns and one of my chores growing up in the 1960s was to clean them. One of the rifles he had that I fell in love with the looks of was an Enfield jungle carbine and I traded for one in the 1980s and kept it for a few years before someone talked me out of it.

Last year I acquired a 2A1 Gibbs special pretty cheap (especially since I had heaps of 308 ammo) and it is a good looking weapon that shoots good...however all it did was make me want the real thing again.

It finally arrived via UPS today and it's a pretty solid 1945 BSA (BFxxxx) with about 50% of the rifling left in a shiniey bore. The rifle has developed character with a bit of the suncorite worn off the exposed part of the barrel (which is fine with me) and the furniture also appears to have a BSA M47 stamp which makes me think its wearing the same outfit it came out of the factory with.

However the bolt carries a different serial number but on a quick inspection it seems to lock up good and the sling is a repo.