Where did this 69 Enfield barrel come from?

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Originally Posted by enscien

As I recall, tapered barrels with the 'Snakeskin' finish as above were produced on a vertical GFM cold swaging machine which was capable of hammering a tapered blank. These barrels then only required machining at the muzzle and breech ends.
Later barrels were produced on a horizontal 'Fritz Werner' machine which could only hammer a parallel blank. The barrels therefore had to be turned full length and have a normal machined finish, plus usually a stight step in the centre where they were supported by a lathe 'steady'. Some may also have polygonal 'Chordal' rifling rather than the traditional Enfield form but I do not have the dates....

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Reminds me of the vertical rifling machine built at Long Branch someone was telling me about the other day, that would do six barrels at a time. I assumed it was verticial to avoid gravity acting on the broaches(?)

Enscien, thanks for that information; it's really useful. I recently took a chance on a No4 Mk1/2 7.62 conversion (£200 so not too much to lose), and am trying to trace its antecedents (and found this forum while doing so). The barrel carries the details that you describe (DD(E)24720/SK/392 etc), so that reassures me that it is a real Enfield barrel. The year code looks like D69, so I assume that the conversion was done in 1969. The rifle has the abbreviated foreend and heavy barrel, a PF serial prefix and has had a sniper cheekpiece fitted to make a kind of L42 look-alike. A forward scope mount block has been added, but the rear scope mount is a curious affair resembling a blank ladder sight-sized piece of metal hingeing on the rear axis pin. To my surprise, with a scope mounted it's as steady as the Rock of Gibraltar. I,ve put about 30 rounds through, and the rifle seems pretty good. I wonder if any other members have come across this arrangement?

I am very tempted to change to a sporter-style stock to give an Enforcer appearance. Sacrilege to some, I expect, but I do find the scope a bit low with the conventional butt.

Good to be an Enfield owner at last, and look forward to finding out a lot more from this forum.

That's merely the date the barrel was made. The switch to 7.62 for NRA shooting didn't really get going until the early '70s.
The mount sounds like the Parker-Hale one. These can develop some play at the rear.