What’s your Lee Enfield Holy Grail?

[Son]

Mine came from a mate who was a collector/dealer. He brought it along to a gunshow a few years ago knowing I couldn't pass it up. It looks to be little dinged up, but that's just mainly the pale wood. It really is in good condition. The putty repair on the handguard was most likely done at the factory according to the late John Wray from the Lithgow SAF Museum. If you checked out the Knowledge Library entry then you've seen nearly all the pics I have.

Yours looks to be in pretty good condition, Luke. Avoid using abrasives in the bore if it doesn't shine up and don't touch the wood.

There have been a few sales of No6 rifles in recent years. The one mentioned in the other thread was in exc. cond. One sold for a bit more than that last year, but a couple of others were around the same or a bit below. One that had been messed with (a coin set in the butt and a coat of gloss on the wood) went for just over 4K.

Cheers
Brad.

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[lmeissner1]

Hi Brad,

Good stuff mate. Some ignoramus(namely me) lightly sanded the buttstock wood about 5-6 yrs ago because it had some sort of sticky resin on it. There were 4 rifles handed down to me in all and I think they'd been masking taped together for some time which is what gave them the stickiness I suppose.

Don't worry I'm not touching anything on it now, I'll leave the bore as it is. Overall it is in pretty good shape in comparison to some of the others I've seen.

Thanks mate,

Luke

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

My only holy grail would be a Stirling SMG to go with the Vickers, Sten, Lewis, and BREN. BUT that ain't gonna happen. I have too bloody many Enfield Rifles and carbines, plus Sniders and Martinis to look for more. (roughly 200), Enfields going from Metfords to the L42A1. Besides, I ran out of room some time ago.
My sister; "Whats going to happen to all those guns when you are gone? Answer; Take what you want, and sell the rest!

[Demo]

My only holy grail would be a Stirling SMG to go with the Vickers, Sten, Lewis, and BREN. BUT that ain't gonna happen. I have too bloody many Enfield Rifles and carbines, plus Sniders and Martinis to look for more. (roughly 200), Enfields going from Metfords to the L42A1. Besides, I ran out of room some time ago.
My sister; "Whats going to happen to all those guns when you are gone? Answer; Take what you want, and sell the rest!

John all those guns and not one camera.

[Bindi2]

John all those guns and not one camera.

He could adopt me

[Son]

He could adopt me

What for- you don't have a camera either!

[Bindi2]

What for- you don't have a camera either!

I could aford to buy one as i would not need to save my dollars to buy so many rifles. Then i would have more time to learn how to upload photos.

[Promo]

It's not a real Enfield, but still hunting after the P'14 snipers .. Well, at least I already got their ancestor, a real Enfield: The Pattern 1913 (Oh yeah, and forgot to mention that I'm also hunting for the Parker-Hale .22lr conversion of the P'14).

[herb13]

I took it to a Tucson gunsmith and he believes it's a a No4 receiver matched with a No5 barrel and stock. He pulled out a 'true' No5 and the barrels match along with all other specs...then we took them both to the range. We couldn't tell any difference! He liked mine enough to offer 300 for it...I may kick myself later but I declined. I have a couple No4's but this is by far my favorite of every Enfield I've been around...and is second only to my K98.

[no4mk1t]

I would say a DeLisle. But there is only one or two originals in the States.
Already have the snipers covered. An L42A1 and a pair of (T)'s