If you owned a Mk4No2 NIW

[RED]

If you owned a new in the wrap Mk4 No2 Enfield what would you do?

1) Not remove the wrap?

2) Remove the wrap and clean?

3) Remove the wrap, clean, and shoot?

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[Dimitri]

3) Remove the wrap, clean, and shoot?

Dimitri

[Lance]

Keep in wrap........ Yes rifle's a rifle's purpose is to shoot, but you can pick up a really nice Mk 2 for $200ish where a new in wrap currently commands 3-4 times that.

[scout7]

I would shoot it. Or buy a really nice one for $200 and shoot it. Please show me where I can get the really nice one for $200. I have been looking for a while. Thanks!

[JB White]

I unwrapped, cleaned and shot mine. It was $200 in the wrap back when I got it.

[Stevo]

I would sell it for the ridiculously high prices they command and use the money to buy a shooter rifle and ammo.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Hmmm?? So how do you wrap a rifle so that someone will pay ten times the value of the rifle for the sake of the wrapping?

And my lifetime's experience is that if I can think of it, someone out there has already done it.

Sorry to be so cynical - it's seeing all those online auction offers that does it!

Patrick

[breakeyp]

There are plenty of unwrapped guns out there to shoot. Unwrapping a gov't preserved gun is destroying a piece of history--a snapshot in time. Do as you will--it's your toy. The more opened up and played with, it makes the remainder more valuable. If you don't get it--you don't get it. Apparently there is no difference between an issue rifle and one that's been sporterized. The same argument applies.

[bradtx]

RED, This debate has gone on for years and neither side gives an inch. My NIW Mk.2 had already been pilfered for it's bayonet so unwrapping wasn't a big deal.

Once it's out of the wrap it'll be considered 'as shot' whether it has been or not so #2 isn't an option.

Brad

[Lee Enfield]

There are plenty of unwrapped guns out there to shoot. Unwrapping a gov't preserved gun is destroying a piece of history--a snapshot in time. Do as you will--it's your toy. The more opened up and played with, it makes the remainder more valuable. If you don't get it--you don't get it. Apparently there is no difference between an issue rifle and one that's been sporterized. The same argument applies.

Exactly, there are still many near new No4 rifles around; why change the main collectibility factor??

If you want a new "un-wrapped" No4Mk2, you can easily find them, as the cachet seems to quickly wear off after they are unwrapped.

I've had No4Mk2s "in the wrap", "unwrapped but still in cosmolene", "cleaned and unfired", and "lightly fired" condition.

The only one with any legitimate "cachet" is the one still "in the wrap", all the others are just another (used) rifle.