Spotted an L39A1 this weekend

[Mk VII]

If we could, they would have gone already.
We've got four of the damn' things sitting in the club locker. Actually they're RIFLE 7.62mm CONV ones that have Parker floating forends on them. Someone's husband make a start on painting a nice coat of high gloss varnish on them because he thought it would make 'em look 'real purty'. He never finished the job before they moved out of town.

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[spinecracker]

Someone's husband make a start on painting a nice coat of high gloss varnish on them because he thought it would make 'em look 'real purty'. He never finished the job before they moved out of town.

Yikes!! Some people deserve a grinding wheel to the scrotum, but I digress....

I went back to the gun show today and double-checked the price on the L39A1 - I must have misread something as the tag read "$2500". Unfortunately it was the only Enfield there even worth looking at (the others were either too beaten up or too bubba'd - or both). The only British .303 ammo was 1949 Indian in two 200-round boxes (in bandoliers and clips) for $109 plus tax per box - no thanks. There was not even a single box of Prvi Partizan .303 - grrrrrr

Why are L39A1s apparently looked down upon in England? Is it because they are "snot" guns ('s not an L42A1, 's not a No.4 T, 's not an Envoy, etc)? Any ideas why?

On an aside, I just spotted a deactivated L42A1 at http://www.deactivated-military-weap...ed-rifles.html - with a 1935 date on the buttsocket, wouldn't this be a trials N0.4 converted into a No.4 T, then later converted to an L42A1, then cruelly deactivated?? I feel like Charlton Heston at the end of "Planet of the Apes"...

[paulseamus]

A L39.A1 Serial Number A548 was yesterday listed on the Aussie website used guns

It is still for sale today.

$AUD2400 roughly equates to $USD2150 and GBP1395.

Cheers

Paul