Reasons to DP a Enfield Rifle

[muffett.2008]

They must have DP'd this one because it had a big hole and a saw cut in the barrel.

Shame because it's a matching 1935 Lithgow.

Can't have happened in the OZ military system, this weapon would not even exist now. As per the EMEI this would have had the woodwork removed, S/N defaced and 5 cuts by oxy or a cutting wheel through the receiver, knox, and 3 more cuts equidistant across the barrel. All dumped into a bin marked ferrous, for scrap.