Battle Damaged Enfields?

[Peter Laidler]

Just be VERY aware with such relics Forumers. Buy the rifle and not the story................ Unless they are from a not only reliable, but WELL DOCUMENTED source

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[jmoore]

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.








So!

[Alan de Enfield]

Anyway, you guess what created the mess.

Was he poking a crocodile and it bit down ?

[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.

[Badger]

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

Wow ...

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 ...

Regards,
Badger

[Jollygreenslugg]

Anyway, you guess what created the mess.

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

Cheers,
Matt

[jmoore]

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

Cheers,
Matt

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!

[Peter Laidler]

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

[jmoore]

Link to bigduke6's thread:

No4 Battle damaged relic....

Severe damage!

[Peter Laidler]

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?