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One of these days I need to track down a nice BSA commercial Lee sporter.

Interesting. It's definitely been shortened by a later civilian owner (not a military mod), but it seems they did a very nice job of it.

RAF marking looks similar to the one on my P'14, I'd say it's a legit RAF disc.

Mine is just marked with the RAF base it was assigned to (RAF Leuchars, Scotland) and not any specific unit.
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Yep, that's what I'm seeing as well. Arm holding Seax stamped over top Crown 27 E.

What is it with the London Proof House and stamping over things? Quite a few of the London marks I've seen are...

Ahh... same as mine then. 8 '51 Lithgow barrel. I wonder if these were done up as .22s that late? I seem to recall reading that Lithgow (or someone in Australia) made up a bunch of .22s for Cadet...

Agreed. It's definitely the London NP mark, but it looks like it has been stamped right on top of an Enfield view mark (crown over E).

It's a London Proof House Nitro Proof. Required for commercial sale in UK.

Hmm, that's three so far, with a pretty wide range of inventory numbers. And again, it's a No. 2 Mk. IV* conversion of a Mk. IV ConD with that same overstamp. Lance, do you remember the barrel date?...

I've posted this rifle elsewhere, but wanted to post it here as well as it seems that one of the members here (Buccaneer) has a very, very similar rifle, also a No. 2 Mk. IV* conversion of an old...

Very nice - the Siamese rifles are tough to find!

The windage-adjustable rear sight is not original to that rifle.

-Mark

The low number of this rifle almost certainly added a bit to its price. I have seen unmangled Savage Mk. Is go for less than $500 on Gunbroker. Mine (a '42 3C block) cost me $125 at a show. It's been...

You now need to have the rifle rechecked for headspace; bolt bodies are not interchangable and need to be properly fitted to their individual rifle.

-Mark

The last matching one on Gunbroker ultimately went for $1500USD. I would guess that they would be more valuable outside of the US, as most of the surviving Mk. Vs are here.

The last one I saw in...

From what IMA has said in the description of the few Lee-Metfords they have listed, virtually all of the bolt-action rifles in the cache went to the UK for subsequent deactivation.

-Mark

They have a full list of these "MLE" rifles in their catalog that goes out by mail. Just from viewing the dates you can tell that things are a little... fishy. 1920-dated Enfield LE Mk. Is, MLE...

When I saw those first rusty pictures, I shuddered. You did a heck of a job cleaning that rifle up, it looks great now!

-Mark

That's a fine-looking rifle - and I bet it shoots as well as it looks!

-Mark

And now it's my Sparkbrook (or will be, once I send off the check and actually receive the rifle)! Whee! :lol:

-Mark

That's one gorgeous rifle!

-Mark

SSA rifles were assembled at Enfield from a pool of parts. Some came from the major makers, some came from SSA itself, and others came from small subcontractors.

BSA viewing marks have a large...

The peddle-scheme rifles are neat - the assembly process was a convoluted mess. If you've still got your original '18 barrel on there, look on the bottom - there should be a mess of BSA view marks!
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