New Addition To The Enfield Family

After patiently waiting for more than a year I eventually found a BSA No7.

Delivered today and what a beauty.

"RIFLE No.7 Mk I
Although a No.7 Mk I, the British version is very different from it's Canadian counterpart. This rifle was a conversion of an existing No.4 and is interesting in that a BSA five-round commercial .22 magazine was welded into a SMLE Mk III* magazine to produce the only Enfield .22 repeater. These rifles were a special contract and produced exclusively for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1948. Total production 2,500".


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very cool. Nice .22 rifle.

Cary

I bought mine in 1965 for £14. Super little thing it is too. The RAF Cadets still had a few of them into the 80's. They used to go into the big 43 Command Workshops at Aldershot if the RAF 'bombies' couldn't fix them. The REME Armourers used to strip one to the bare bones for its spares value every so often, just to keep them on the road but this practice was stopped so they'd condemn them and get No8's as replacements.

I wish I'd collected all of the bits up together when the workshops closed!

Actualy the magazine is not welded in, its quite removeable for loading.

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Originally Posted by John Sukey

Actualy the magazine is not welded in, its quite removeable for loading.

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The magazine is not 'welded' into the rifle - it removes in the normal way.
The 5 shot BSA magazine is rivetted into a holder / plate which in turn is rivetted into the 'outer' magazine shell.
The 5 shot magazine does not come out of the 'outer' shell.

The bolt and action numbers match but the magazine is not matching to the rifle.
The magazine number is BS2140 - has anyone got this rifle ?

somewhat confused, as I can remove my .22 mag from the shell and I do to load it.

Nice one Alan - looks really great - bet you can't wait to shoot it. When you've got a .22 slot on your ticket it's nice to fill it with a 'proper' rifle! I'm really pleased with my .22 Long Lee and it's great to shoot.

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Actualy the magazine is not welded in, its quite removeable for loading.

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I just wasnt pulling hard enough - its now quite 'free & easy'.

Looking closer I dont think the rivets are in fact rivets but are spot-welds

Sweet Rifle.

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very nice trainer , not been fortunate enough to find one of those ........yet

Does this mean the rabbits on your golf course are going to get "Enfielded"?

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Originally Posted by harry mac

Does this mean the rabbits on your golf course are going to get "Enfielded"?

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Yup - they have been 22'd and even 243'd for a while but now they will be properly Enfield 22'd.

See you on the 29th.

The 22 mag is removable from the adapted No4 mag. I have some of the original 22 mags, which I intend to convert to the No7 format by reversing the lever. Those little mags are becoming quite hard to get hold of.

Is the reversed lever the only difference betwen the little supersport 5 and the No7 EFL? When the RAF were here that had a load of No7's for their Cadets and some of those inner mags were just supersports pushed in place.

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Originally Posted by Peter Laidler

Is the reversed lever the only difference betwen the little supersport 5 and the No7 EFL? When the RAF were here that had a load of No7's for their Cadets and some of those inner mags were just supersports pushed in place.

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I was under the impression it was a "BSA Sportsman" 5 round magazine not a "Supersport"

I thought the "Supersport" was a 10 or 15 round tubular magazine under the barrel.

Ah, yes! Just testing to see if you were taking notice. But not being military types, easy to mix up! But back to the question. Is the reversed latch thinggy the only difference?