3 Rifles in 4 days - its got to stop !!!

Just found another 'must have' - Its been lying in the gun shop for 18 months + and did a bit of negotiating to an acceptable level so now its with its brothers and sisters.

Enfielditus is a terrible disease - It would be easier to give up smoking.

It looks like there is a bit of history on this one - originally marked up (very faintly) Mk1/3 (F) FTR then over stamped (Square S) S No4 Mk1* The Savage markings are a lot deeper and certainly over the top of the Mk1/3.
The old markings can be seen above and below the S No4 Mk1*

There is a 52 to the left of the original serial number which I'm guessing is the year. Serial No 93CXXXX

Its now been converted into a .410 shotgun and to comply with UK laws the magazine is welded into the trigger guard and the follower / spring cannot move. If the magazine was functional it would be classed as a 'firearm' (the same as a .303) even tho' it will not cycle .410 cartridges. - crazy !!!

Anyway - some pics.

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Alan, it's a nice looking enfield. My Savage is a 1950 FTR. My most accurate enfield also. It's too bad they "neutered" yours. With the "new" occupant in the white house and his apparant love of all things european I'm sure he figures the USA has a lot of catching up to do in regard to gun-control european style.

ME2 - its not impossible to own guns in the UK you just have to play 'the game'
I wanted the 410 to fill out the collection which to date includes :

No1 Mk3* Originally a Lithgow & then scrubbed & Ishapore FR'd in 47 (.303)
No2 Mk4* (.22)
No4 Mk1* Savage (.303)
No4 Mk1* Savage (.410)
No5 Mk1 Fazakerley (.303)
No7 Mk1 BSA (5 shot .22)
Enforcer Clone (7.62) built on a 1949 Faz action)

I've just sold my other Enforcer Clone to hopefully make space on my licence for a No3

The Longbranch .410 I purchased the other day is going to a new home where people with better skills and facilities than I have can re-build it.

It's a shame you don't know who got the bundle of No4 barrels at the last Scotarms auction.
By the way, I won't be at the next one, I'm working. Probably just as well, I can do without more excuses to impulse buy.

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Originally Posted by harry mac

It's a shame you don't know who got the bundle of No4 barrels at the last Scotarms auction.
By the way, I won't be at the next one, I'm working. Probably just as well, I can do without more excuses to impulse buy.

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Harry - they have changed the dates to the 29th April

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Have a brother to that rifle right here close by the computer. Was giving the weapon it's six-month dusting and oiling. This No.4 Mk 1/3 was FTR-ed at Fazakerley in 1950 and looks to have been in storage not used. Rifle is in Excellent ++ condition and appears to just have handling wear. Normally, this one lives on the wall of the downstairs den near a big bookcase. It's a handsome and important historic military arm.

Acquired that Savage built Lee Enfield from a buddy at a flea market in western New Hampshire in 1995. Happened to have the Savage Mk 1/3 in the car trunk when rolling into Chicopee-Falls, Massachusetts. Was on the way to see friends in Springfield and stopped by a Dunkin Donuts for some coffee. While sipping java not far from the site of the old Savage Arms factory, the irony dawned on me. Thought it interesting that the military rifle had, through happenstance, made it back to the town of it's 1943 birth. After several decades with back and forth trips across the Atlantic ocean the Lee Enfield rifle was making a short visit to it's home town.

Though several long arms are owned including four M1 Garands, if push came to shove and only one defensive rifle could be taken along in an "emergency", my choice would be that particular Lee Enfield No.4 Mk 1/3. Along with an Ithaca Model 37 "featherweight" pump riot gun and my M1911 Colt .45 ACP, I could probably hold off the entire Mexican army. Well, at least for a few minutes!

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I'm not working on the 29th, so may have to do some laundry or cut the grass to accrue enough brownie points with the domestic sergeant major to let me go.
I'll be ordering a catalogue on Tuesday.

This is the SAVAGE No. 4 Mk 1/3 previously mentioned that went through FTR at Fazakerley in 1950. When the previous owner acquired the rifle, it was wrapped up and in some sort of sticky preservative government goop. Looks to be unfired since overhaul. This is one of the front line SHTF defensive weapons here at the Forward Firebase in the Poconos of Slobovania.

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