Very interesting Canadian marked Training rifle!

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My friend from work told me he had a Lee-Enfield .22 a few days ago after him and I got talking and I told him I collectedNo.2 Lee-Enfields and other Commonwealth rifles. Was kind of shocked when he actually brought it to work today. Ha ha! Anyway it has a few things I have never seen or heard of before.

Its a DP'd 1916 Enfield built No1 MkIII, converted to III*, then converted into this .22 trainer. According to Skennerton, this one is a .22 RF Pattern 1914 Short Rifle No. 2, with somewhere upwards of around 1800 built.

This rifle has C^ markings on the knox, rear sight base, and on the right hand side of the butt. It also wears a rear sight off of a Ross! Its on a very interesting looking sight base.

What are you experts' thoughts on this little beast? I would give my eye teeth to buy this from him. I'll see what I can do but I don't think he'll move on it. Its been in his family for 45 years.

















Days like today make me love this hobby. Sorry for the crappy iphone pics but I didn't think he was going to bring it to work so didn't bring my camera.

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