Need some help...Enfield experts im looking at you.

[Richard Hare]

Peter,

Re. the No 4;
It may depend on the height of the fore-sight, but on the ones I have done, the ring will slip over OK with only the removal of the sight protector.

Cheers,
Richard.

[mrclark303]

That yellow paint just tells the dealer selling the rifle, through dampened eyes and a lump in his throat that it is a historic rifle from from the Dublin Police

NOT "SPECIAL IRISH CONTACT" DUBLIN POLICE RIFLES........ SURELY

[mike16]

Detroit police? Delhi Police. does that stuff have any value at all? seems like a waste of a lot of spar parts

[Frederick303]

I thought that DP meant they were certified "IRA" guns, as every one knows DP stands for "Die Protestants". The RUC would quack when they saw the yellow bands, knew they were in for a tough fight............Good show, what.....

Now if you doubt that let me send you the letter on that..it is documented.

FTR Stands for "For Training Recruits",

ZF stands for "Zimbabwe Police"

BER stands for "Berlin" rare rifles issues to Secret cold war West German Berlin police force unit. So secret all photos taken of this elite unit were only taken on a dark night with no moon.

FR on the wood stands for "Force République " arms issued to the Free French units in Great Britain after Dunkirk.

GF stands for "Guard Force", the guns were wrapped with wire so that the prisoner of war guards could use them like clubs, mostly on the German Luftwaffe POWs captured when they bombed Pearl Harbor in 1940 (covered up by FDR so as not to embarrass the Canadian Primer minister).

[Seaspriter]

I thought that DP meant they were certified "IRA" guns, as every one knows DP stands for "Die Protestants". The RUC would quack when they saw the yellow bands, knew they were in for a tough fight............Good show, what.....

Good fun Frederick.

But I was sure DP stood for "Damned Politicians" that the IRA hated so much (or was it Damned Protestants?). But really, we all know that "DP" really just means "Defective Parts," and ZF means "Zero Flaws."

Re. the No 4;
It may depend on the height of the fore-sight, but on the ones I have done, the ring will slip over OK with only the removal of the sight protector.

Mine just slip over with only removal of the sight protector -- maybe mine are a smaller version of fore-sight.

No5's ...just snip it at the bottom with a pair of wire cutters. If you use a hacksaw it will shorted it when you come to join the ends up - walk down to welders shop and ask the welder to gas weld the two slightly tapered snipped ends together.

Captain Laidler, for those of us for whom a TIG or MIG welder is not available (I live in a condo and the Condo Cops would go ballistic if I set up a welding operation), would brazing (I can get away with this for no one knows what I'd doing in my kitchen) ruin the retaining ring with too much heat?

[Peter Laidler]

Thread 15, last para. It wouldn't ruin the ring. I'm just saying what we used to do!

[Colonel Enfield]

I thought that DP meant they were certified "IRA" guns, as every one knows DP stands for "Die Protestants". The RUC would quack when they saw the yellow bands, knew they were in for a tough fight............Good show, what.....

Now if you doubt that let me send you the letter on that..it is documented.

FTR Stands for "For Training Recruits",

ZF stands for "Zimbabwe Police"

BER stands for "Berlin" rare rifles issues to Secret cold war West German Berlin police force unit. So secret all photos taken of this elite unit were only taken on a dark night with no moon.

FR on the wood stands for "Force République " arms issued to the Free French units in Great Britain after Dunkirk.

GF stands for "Guard Force", the guns were wrapped with wire so that the prisoner of war guards could use them like clubs, mostly on the German Luftwaffe POWs captured when they bombed Pearl Harbor in 1940 (covered up by FDR so as not to embarrass the Canadian Primer minister).

I did find all this amusing

Just to be that guy, though - in case someone accidentally stumbles across this thread during a Google search for Lee-Enfield markings; that's not what the abbreviations mean.