Advice for a first time Enfield buyer?

[browningautorifle]

More pics would be good...the original sling isn't much of a bonus.

[enfield303t]

Should you have a condition such as a addictive personality my advice would be...don't start!

[Ovidio]

I'd go for it. Here I'd pay at least 700€ for a good one. Barrel?

[lyon13]

Should you have a condition such as a addictive personality my advice would be...don't start!

......You had me and then you lost me.

[CINDERS]

They are very insipid by nature and it is a proven fact once you buy 1 Lee Enfield Rifle you get the urge to buy more it is known to be very hard to resist even harder to cure take it you have been warned.

[lyon13]

Attachment 84618Ok so I couldn't get my camera to take a picture of the bore so this is the only new pic I have.
Also I was wrong on the price. It's 400 after the fees and tax out the door.

[lyon13]

Ok so I was able to get up to the other place and they had the other one out again and this time I had my camera with me.
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They guy is going to get back to me about the price and I can't tell where it was made only that it was made in 1944

[scoobsean]

Ok so I was able to get up to the other place and they had the other one out again and this time I had my camera with me.
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They guy is going to get back to me about the price and I can't tell where it was made only that it was made in 1944

M47C is the mark for BSA Shirley - I have one from 1944 too

[mike16]

nice!

the bore looks like it has some pretty sharp lands and rifleing. but you might want to clean it up further.fouling and all that. then I would take a 30 calibre bore brush, wrap it with ooo steel wool and dip in some valve grinding compound, oil based, and run it through the barrel a few times . and look to see if it cleans up. just clean it up, dont make it a .577 caliber wildcat

its a nice rifle, they typically go for thst kind of money after tax and the ncis background check. typical tax on pleasure.

[browningautorifle]

Don't put anything radical down the barrel. Get a good brush, or more like several and get to work. You may be surprised and it comes clean, I've seen it several times. If you stuff a .30 cal brush wrapped with something down the barrel, it may become jammed. I had that happen too. Stainless steel brush and oil...and get scrubbing. The rest of the pics aren't much use except to show us it's a full wood #4.