No.4 Mk.II still in wrapping - current prices?

[tlvaughn]

I purchased this one in July and will be the first to admit that I paid more for it than I wanted to. I did not pay the asking price nor the shipping cost, so I have convinced myself that I got a deal

[spinecracker]

In 6 months to a year you'll think of it as a bargain, the way prices are going lol

[rhodders]

Wonder if bob has any more in stock. I think a phone call will be in order on monday morning. At the way things are going price wise this will be the only way I will be able to afford another mint lee.

Rhodders

[neal455]

last time i spoke to Bob he had 1 (one) £595 was the asking price. That was last month He gets them from USA as thats where they all seem to have ended up. British gov. never sells onto UK market as I understand it, and these days surplus is sent to arm the Afgan police force (or the like) or tipped into the sea ( my friend was doing this very recently for the army slinging dismantled arms into the sea of the side of a boat ) Nothing much is any good anymore to civvy shooters ! !

[spinecracker]

AAArrrggghhhh - stop throwing them into the sea!!! Or at least tell me where this is being done and I will learn how to scuba dive. either that or join the Afghan police (no thanks).

Lots ended up in the US? Not from where I am standing lol. I will have to dig deeper into this.

[neal455]

To clear what i said the stuff going into the sea were SLR's and the like from when the British army changed to SA80's NOT Enfields (This was in the Falklands) So you can breath again !! I double cheaked the story today and it was about 15 years ago !
I have been told its not gov. policy to sell British arms in the UK, hence why lots of Lee's are everywhere else but here!! There is an Italian web site with lots of Lee's on it, its where Henry Krank get them from, they may have new Lee's, try them.
Sorry about my spelling!

[rhodders]

Went to Pudsey and had a look at the examples on sale. A total waste of petrol and time.

The Italian Lee's are beat up No4 mk 1 or Mk 1* none matching numbers and bashed to bits very dark in colour and tacky feeling perhaps too much oil ???and as for price they vary from £325 upwards.

Pay the extra and get a good one. You get what you pay for.

Rhodders.

[neal455]

I dd hear they were not all that, but Kranks are advertising new ones ?

[rhodders]

They are the new ones, They have quite a number in stock.

It looks very like they were parade ground guns and bashed around with no thaught for the condition of the rifle. As all the bolts are different to the rest of the rifle I would suspect that they have been mixed up from rifle to rifle to get the head spaceing correct instead of trying to keep it all correct and replace just the head. The question is if they were un fired why would the bolts be so miss matched did the italian's remove the bolts from every rifle when putting them to bed after a hard days square bashing and dump them in a big box?.

I know that when one of our Enfelds returns home from our earstwhile posession in the Americas it has to be re-profed did these returning Italian rifles have to go through the same procedure ??? or perhaps as Italy is in the EU are they exempt ??

The rifles that I had a look at were all No4 Mk1 actions with the slot removal for the bolt and retaining the mag cut off lump on the front right hand side of the receiver.

rhodders

[spinecracker]

Looking at the company website, it appears that when the rifles were put into storage in Italy the bolts were removed and placed in separate boxes, hence the complete pig's ear of a situation regarding mismatched bolts - sheesh