Skeletonised No5

[Gil Boyd]

There we have it....................anyway, I wonder if those astronauts ever knew they were drugged when they believe they landed on the moon.
Always made me smile, they could talk and send images back to Cape Canaveral live, and I could'nt get a microwave video signal in line of site 200 yards on earth

[muffett.2008]

Speaking of Astronauts and Aliens, I was shown a pic of about 10 SMLE's that were the first of 70 to cop the dropsaw, it seems the mindset of our upper Military Echelon has been altered by Aliens to order the destruction of all old firearms held as presentation stock, my eyes are a bit wet and swollen from all the weeping.

[mrclark303]

Speaking of Astronauts and Aliens, I was shown a pic of about 10 SMLE's that were the first of 70 to cop the dropsaw, it seems the mindset of our upper Military Echelon has been altered by Aliens to order the destruction of all old firearms held as presentation stock, my eyes are a bit wet and swollen from all the weeping.

It makes me grind my teeth Muffet, utter idiots have no respect or interest in a piece of Australian history....

[David TS]

Something in the back of my mind suggests AJ Parker produced skeletonised No.4's and Bren Guns for CCF units on a commercial basis in the early 1960's.
Could this be the source?

That's a point Mick. When Dave T & I were invited to the place when it was winding up (Edna by this time deceased & her niece & great nephew in charge) there were dozens & dozens of them in the basement, although all I saw were built on No4's or SMLE's. If I'd known this question was going to crop up in ten years' time I'd have paid more attention to them.

I recall there were photos of the skeletonised Enfields from the Ma Parker works floating round t'interweb several years ago, if I recall correctly taken by someone on one of the urban exploration forums, 28 Days Later was it?

Edit:

Here y'go:

Report - - Alfred Parker Ltd Gunsmiths, Birmingham - June 2010 | 28DaysLater.co.uk

And some more here:

Report - - Alfred J Parker Armoury Works - Birmingham - 2011 | 28DaysLater.co.uk


Apologies if they have been posted before.

[pedro243]

I finally have it all licensed so here are some quick pictures

[CINDERS]

Not much rifling to be seen in that tube Pedro......

[mrclark303]

Licensed Pedro? You need a licence for it!

Looking very cool indeed, I would love one to go alongside my sectioned rifles.

[pedro243]

Yeah there is a bit of rifling, it is just very black. I'll see how I go cleaning it one day.

Yeah, in fun loving Australia, even skeletonised actions may require licensing. I need to check if it actually needs licensing, but the person I bought it off had it licensed, so I needed to get it licensed.

[mrclark303]

Well Pedro, licensed madness or not, its a superb addition to an Enfield collection.

I missed out on a sectioned L85A1 a while back, I would love to have a cutaway example of every main British service rifle type from the P53 to the SA80 on my gun room wall.

P53, Snider and Martini aren't an issue as there are still a good number of really rough worn out examples to restore and section, SMLE full length cutaways are very rare here though.

I like a difficult project!

[pedro243]

Yeah it does fit in well with my slowly growing Lee Enfield collection.

I was after a jungle carbine and ended up with 3 of them in my last acquisitions. Sadly the BSA one has been converted to 303/25, but either way, its in my safe