.22 Enfield's Part 1

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.22 Short Rifle Mk II

One of the more common examples found in North America, a conversion of the MLM Mk II/II* and MLE Mk I/I*. Often found rebarreled with late 1930, early 1940's barrels. I have been told that many were used by the Canadian military early in WWII but have never seen one with a Canadian property stamp in the receiver.

Some of these examples are dated conversions like my example from Enfield in 1912, others have no place or date of conversion. Some are Naval marked some are not.

My example here is a 1912 Enfield conversion of a 1897 BSA MLE Mk I, Naval markled, it was rebarreled in 1939, of note is the non-standard rear sight protector profile