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I am currently looking into purchasing a No.4 Mk.1 Fazakerley 1943 made rifle.
The rifling looks strong and clean, numbers matching bolt to receiver.
This rifle has code CE1967 on the forend band. I am aware that was a code for South African contract furniture, but I am wondering if this is correct for this rifle? Or was it perhaps rebuilt at some point in time by someone other then the armoury?
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I meant ce1967.
Pardon the typo
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It obviously must be a replacement having a 1967 date, but without more information it is difficult to say under what circumstances it was replaced. It could be a rifle that went to South Africa & was refurbished whilst in service there, but it could just as easily have been done by a civvy, as lots of this wood has been released onto the surplus market over the years. If you could get a few photo's it might help with further advice.
ATB.
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It obviously must be a replacement having a 1967 date, but without more information it is difficult to say under what circumstances it was replaced. It could be a rifle that went to South Africa & was refurbished whilst in service there, but it could just as easily have been done by a civvy, as lots of this wood has been released onto the surplus market over the years. If you could get a few photo's it might help with further advice.
ATB.
A few years ago I found a (UK
) surplus-dealer who had bought a number of pallet-boxes of the CE1967 complete sets of furniture, he must have had 1000's, I bought a 'few' from him and in fact sold my last 4 sets to the USA
last year.
I hand selected them all to include the L length of butt and were colour matching. They were not expensive as I don't think he realised how many he had bought.
Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...
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Originally Posted by
Schluts
Or was it perhaps rebuilt at some point in time by someone other then the armoury?
Here in Canada
, there are FAR more reassembled service rifles than there are originals. Everyone and his dog has been re assembling them for fun and profit. I wouldn't be at all surprised, specially out here on the west coast to find it was cobbled together and pushed out as an "Original"...to market.
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Here in
Canada
, there are FAR more reassembled service rifles than there are originals. Everyone and his dog has been re assembling them for fun and profit. I wouldn't be at all surprised, specially out here on the west coast to find it was cobbled together and pushed out as an "Original"...to market.
This is what makes sense to me, as I am on the west coast and his asking price is a price that you would expect to pay for a all matching rifle.
The stock is also marked with an “S” on the top of the stock before the butt plate, which I interpret as a small size stock.
Which for me, would leave something to be desired.
Thanks for the info, this confirms that I will continue my search for a No4 mk1
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Here in
Canada
, there are FAR more reassembled service rifles than there are originals. Everyone and his dog has been re assembling them for fun and profit. I wouldn't be at all surprised, specially out here on the west coast to find it was cobbled together and pushed out as an "Original"...to market.
I supplied some of the furniture sets last year to a guy in the Yukon (is that 'up your way' ?)
Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...
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Originally Posted by
Alan de Enfield
in the Yukon
North by quite a bit but borders on us. 1800 odd KM or 1100 miles plus a bit... Could be though.
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