Battle Damaged Enfields?

Here's A nosecap, maybe it's the one of which I was thinking, but I seem to remember something else. Anyway, you guess what created the mess.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...stuff030-1.jpg

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...stuff033-1.jpg

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...stuff032-1.jpg

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...stuff036-1.jpg
So!

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Originally Posted by jmoore

Anyway, you guess what created the mess.

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Was he poking a crocodile and it bit down ?

I bought this from a fellow who bought it from a French farmer on the Mons battlefield. It is too far gone to restore.

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Originally Posted by breakeyp

I bought this from a fellow who bought it from a French farmer on the Mons battlefield. It is too far gone to restore.

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Wow ... :eek:

I wonder if it was buried with that barrel bent like that, or whether it was run over some time following the war by a tractor or something ...

Thanks for the pics ... :thup:

Regards,
Badger

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Originally Posted by jmoore

Anyway, you guess what created the mess.

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Is this more recent than we'd think? Afghanistan perhaps?

Cheers,
Matt

There are plenty of these old relics scattered around in Afgstan, certainly in the UK part but while they're beaten to death, there is very little corrosion as things dn't rust out there. So you'll get a battered and bent SMLE that's, just, well battered and bent but not corroded

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Originally Posted by Jollygreenslugg

Is this more recent than we'd think? Afghanistan perhaps?

Cheers,
Matt

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I've had it for over twenty years, and it looked about the same then, I reckon. Unfortunately, all I know is that it came w/ a bunch of spares and barreled actions, many Indian, but not all. The buttstock pictured earlier on this thread was in the same lot, but I've no idea if they go together!

My original post on a study of battle damaged firearms and edged weapons did not envisage such monumental damage. I had originally thought of the typical scrapes caused by recoil when the rifle was used around the corner of a building or over a rock or parapet, with the occasional bullet hole in a stock. Peter's input with rifles from the Warminster collection certainly raised the bar. Thanks for the input chaps, and keep them coming!
Ian Skennerton

Link to bigduke6's thread:

No4 Battle damaged relic....

Severe damage!

Has anyone got one of these battlefield pick-ups and cleaned it/de rusted it down using electrolysis as per a thread on the restoration forum? We have an SMLE plus a Webley Mk4 found on Salisbury Plain that I just left in the workshop waste oil tank for a year. In fact the grotty Webley was pretty good afterwards and I fired it.

Anyone got pics of a pick-up that's been de-rusted?