Need help identifying LEC markings

[Daan Kemp]

We love pictures. More pictures of any marks on the action and barrel will allow the experts to give much more 'expert' advice. Full length pictures will also help.

The wood looks like a serious oiling would do it good.

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[breakeyp]

Dates of issue on on the top of the disc and rack numbers at the bottom.

Issued June 1900
7th Dragoon Guards
Rack/inventory number 06

Very nice.

[LongThomas]

We love pictures. More pictures of any marks on the action and barrel will allow the experts to give much more 'expert' advice. Full length pictures will also help.

The wood looks like a serious oiling would do it good.

I can add more pictures but the rifle this was on was sporterised, probably the fourth LEC that had been bubba'd that I've bought just for one or two good parts.
And what oil would you recommend for the butt?
Cheers, Tom

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I'm also scratching my head because this butt has a sling mount on the bottom but not the left side of the stock. I would have thought all British cavalry and mounted infantry troops would have carried the British style of cavalry carbine with the rear sling mount being recessed into the left side of the butt. Whereas the RIC carbines had it on the right side and the NZ carbines only had a stud at the bottom of the stock. Is it possible this was an NZ carbine butt that has had the disc replaced with this DG one? After all the 7th DG and NZ mounted rifles were both in South Africa together during the second Boer War.