Just for giggles, if we are going to talk bout crap, let's think about:

Sten Mark 1

Chauchat

Pike Mark 1

and there are others, of course.......

I'm not shouting "loud enough and often enough", although that IS rather a nice quote from Dr. Goebbels.

I am as mystified as anyone. I just would like people to investigate this without preconceived conclusions getting in the way.

There must be a REASON for these and some indication as to where and when they were done. They didn't just grow on a Lee-Enfield bush out in the back pasture.

I know that guys will scream, "Buy the RIFLE, not the STORY", but I only paid $38 for mine, so there wasn't much of a story. The story was that it was on a Manitoba farm from 1946 until the day I got it: something like 45 years. It was supposed to have been "borrowed" from the Army by a fellow who was being discharged..... back to that same farm. His grandson disposed of the ugly old thing for something he wanted: 3 boxes of .243 ammo. Not much of a story; it wasn't even Andy McNaughton's personal sniping rifle (he grew up 42 miles from here: next decent-size town), much less Monty's personal Tank rifle. Just a beat-up, ugly old gun on a medium-size 1000-acre farm, a rifle which was too slow for modern fast-and-wary coyotes.

I just would like to see the bottom of the mystery..... especially as there seem to be TWO of them, identical.