Fake Canadian No 4(T)

[No4Mk1(T)]

The Long, tall ,bearded drink of water you guys are referencing.......

I'm not referring to any one person as I do not know the name of the person I talked to at the gunshow.

Are you referring to me? My table was next to John's and it was 'several' years ago that I had several No4(T)s on a table out there.

I have no idea who you are. Would that be John R to whom you are referring? I have corresponded with him via email a few times but to the best of my knowledge I have never met him in person.

I'm afraid I didn't "confess" to making any No4(T)s...I wish I could though.

If you didn’t confess then it wasn’t you. It’s that simple. The person I’m referring to told me outright that he had installed a few sets of reproduction pads onto bog stock No4Mk1s. I have no idea if the seller was trying to test ether my knowledge or the quality of his work but he allowed our conversation to go on until I said I felt the rifles were reproductions. I have no idea if said seller would have made a full discourser had I made an offer to purchase without demonstrating at least a basic knowledge of what I was looking at.

Perhaps you are mis-remembering my explaining the renumbering of that bracket? IIRC the other rifles did not have scopes or brackets.

IMHO renumbering of components to match a collectable rifle is fakery. Even if you disclose what you have done to the new owner what is to stop that person from passing it off as original? (granted this is unlikely being that you sold it to John R).

Those rifles have mostly gone to other collectors now, some perhaps even as well-informed as you, and so far none of them have complained about their "fake" No4(T)s...

I’m happy for both you and the buyers of your rifles however don’t you think it might be prudent to at least find out if it was you I was referring to or criticize my Enfield knowledge before making public comments like this? At no point did I say that “you” were selling “Fake” No4Mk1(T) rifles.
My comments above were simply relating what I experienced on one occasion. I have no idea if the person to whom I spoke and was offering the humped T’s and the person that Terry is referring are the same person.