Mystery Enfield??????????

[Thunderbox]

So, who has the rifle? When are we all going to see it?

Has anyone at Leeds seen it?

[303 Collector]

Am I the only one to think this is a cut and shut photoshop fantasy?
The area behind the trigger on one view has not been cleaned up and looks metalic
and the view from the other side shows this area clear, but I know nothing about photoshop and not much more about Enfields.

[jmoore]

Am I the only one to think this is a cut and shut photoshop fantasy?
The area behind the trigger on one view has not been cleaned up and looks metalic
and the view from the other side shows this area clear, but I know nothing about photoshop and not much more about Enfields.

I had noticed it, but it looks more like a clean-up of the area surrounding the rifle. There's several subtle features that a photoshopped image would not have. So unless the photos are from the mind of a firearms AND photo-editing genius, then it likely exists.

[Surpmil]

The real question would be, why? Not worth that much trouble for just for a trigger hung on the body. Presumably done to give adequate strength for a more powerful cartridge. Looks no later than the 20s and perhaps earlier as mentioned.

Best guess is a trade sample which would have been shopped around to countries that already used a larger, more powerful cartridge than the LE could accommodate.

Or perhaps offered to countries that had been buyers of the LE and were being tempted by the purveyors of rimless cartridges and Mauser actions? A sort of "we can do it too" design.