Sorry I don't have pictures as I know they are helpful, but no camera here, ha!

Anyway, I just bought this SMLE No.1 Mk III (I believe) for $300. As I like well used looking rifles, and rifles with a possible Middle Easter history, I thought that was a decent price. Hopefully that wasn't too much for my first Enfield?

The markings on it are:

G.R.
B.S.A Co
1918
Sht LE
III (a little star and a line through it and under the star is next to this)

The stock disk is brass with some Arabic writing on it, and there are some faint Arabic markings on the buttstock as well (rack number?). There is also some markings on the receiver that look Arabic, but I'm not sure if they are. There is a slight crack in the stock in the middle of the stock on the left side above the trigger area that I missed. Doesn't seem too bad but I'm not good at this judgment, ha! There's a brass pin there already so maybe that was an attempt at repair?

Bore is very nice, shiny, with strong lands and grooves.

I know very little about Lee Enfields, so any help with figuring out what I have would be great. I can chime in with information until I get some pictures up sometime. Some people on another forum believe it was a Training Only rifle that may be unsafe to fire. The clean bore leads me to believe it may be. If so would this unsafeness (is that a word? Ha!) be due to excessive head space, general unsoundness of the parts, or other factors? It does have a crack in the stock as mentioned and the buttplate shows alot of wear, leading me to believe the training rifle idea. I'd love to shoot it and would be pretty disappointed if I couldn't. I want to keep it, but if I can't shoot it I may end up selling it (for less I would guess, ugh!) Thanks everyone for helping this obvious Lee Enfield noob! Hopefully next time I will do a bit of research BEFORE I buy the rifle, ha!

I will also get pictures as soon as possible!
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