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08-23-2021 02:43 PM
# ADS
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Look at it this way you probably have one of the rarer SMLE's not due to numbers produced but by the attrition rate suffered by them and soldiers during 1914-1915 "We will be home by Christmas" escapades on the Western front.
I think the life expectancy for a rifle was a matter of days if not weeks given the artillery involved and don't forget it is a 106 year old rifle, if it has had an FR which it surely would have then chances are the nose cap was swapped out by the armourers in the day so don't sweat it to much you have a survivor, replace it and you've undone its history.
The only W I could find for W was Weedon in Skennertons MkII Broad Arrow
As far as your other question I'll leave that to the real experts in the fields of the SMLE's set up.
Last edited by CINDERS; 08-24-2021 at 11:03 AM.
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