I came upon my first (and to date only) Lee Enfield a couple years back when a buddy decided he was going traveling with his bride and cleaned out his safe. He had a rather average (in my untrained eyes) 1942 Savage #4 Mk. s/n 21C5xxx.

He had given a guy that worked for him a loan of $80.00 on the the gun. The guy disappeared and never returned. His loss, my gain...at least at the time I figured about any gun was worth $80.00!!

It was caked/coated/filled/jammed with cosmolineicon. So...I took the gun apart and took it to work and put the metal parts in the parts washer (kind of a hot water parts "dishwasher").

When the door opened I laid on a generous coating of g96...to hold the line on the rust.

To my surprise, the barrel was absolutly perfect...shiny and clean. I would guess the gun had never done anything but hang around in a rack...traveling to Europe and back and who knows where else???

The stock is good, not great, but the darn thing shoots like a dream. I'm reloading for the gun and at 100yds, I'm grinin'

I live in the KC area, have a range on the farm I live on and enjoy lots of shooting in decent weather. My wife shoots with me. I have a C&R and reload a LOT...rifle with a single stage Hornady LNL and handgun ammo with a Dillon progressive.

Also deer and turkey hunt.

Looks like a great forum! Looking forward to learning about MILSURPS...I have a few, not many.

Bob
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