Rare find or simple fudge?

[Patrick Chadwick]

Am I missing something here?

http://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=5713875

It looks like a Long Lee-Enfield that has had the (presumably shot-out or damaged) barrel replaced by an SMLE barrel, with the foresight looking grotesquely high* without the nosecap. The wood then shortened to fit the replacement barrel.

BTW: I wrote to the seller, quite politely pointing this out. He did not reply or correct the text.

Look, admire, enjoy the inventive prose that it has a "Mauser foresight" !!!! and tell me, please, is this a rare NZ version, or just a piece of Bubbary?


*with the LE sight soldered onto the SMLE barrel, the high SMLE foresight should ensure that shots at 100 yards fly well below the target!

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[Bindi2]

Looks like one of the range pattern rifles.

[Maxwell Smart]

+1 on shortened range pattern rifle.


Not unusual as such, but getting rarer to find.

[Son]

Definitely a range pattern mod of a long Lee but probably not a replacement barrel. Usually a barrel replaced with a 25.2" H barrel would either have no rear sight or a reamed out MkIII rear sight base. Often, if the original barrel is in good nic, they just shortened it and stepped the muzzle to take the MkIII front sight. The H barrel is the same profile as the 30.2" barrel to start with. So keeping the orig barrel explains it still having the orig rear sight.
I didn't go to the trouble of translating the text... Does it say anything about barrel numbers?

[englishman_ca]

With the Sht.LE front sight ramp and blade insert, the original long Lee sight will be pretty much redundant.

The usual rear sight fitted and used would have been an aftermarket peep sight mounted on left rear of receiver.

[Promo]

This seller never responds to e-mails, unless you purchase a rifle with them. Too many requests. If you want to know something, give them a call - at least that is what I do if I'm uncertain about one of their items.
With their description I assume they basically don't know details on every rifle, probably the description is also based upon what the seller told them. I made good purchases with items they described wrong.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Thanks to all for the enlightenment!

BTW, the advert makes no mention of numbering. Since it is a definite plus point if barrel, receiver and bolt have matching numbers, the lack of such a mention may be taken as an implication that they do not match.