What’s your Lee Enfield Holy Grail?

[No4Mk1(T)]

Wow that one nice update limpetmine!!

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[limpetmine]

Wow that one nice update limpetmine!!

Thanks. It's been fun. I need to find a Long Branch L-42. I found a Savage not 15 miles from me, he wanted 7K for it. Full kit.

Here's a pic I've got on my phone from the last display I did in 2014. It was a hard weekend moving all that stuff! The two table to the left, not in the picture, had all the 7.62 stuff, Enforcer, and the like, and a training/aiming tripod. I was proud to have taken 1st place.


In the far right, bottom of the picture, you can see the sporting rifle stock. That is the 1930 Trails No. 4 Mk 1 that was converted to a (T), then into a sporting rifle. :barf:

I found the other picture that had the left side of the display. Here it is. The far right was Paki No. 4's and Indian, 1950's-1960.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

De Lisle

[mr.e moose]

Rings for a SMLE Periscopic Prism scope. I have the scope, DRP has the mount. Anyone have the rings?

[Ross Australia]

My holy grail is very difficult to decide. I have acquired examples of everything except an L42A1 a L39A1 and a No8 and No9 rifle. Even acquired a Remington Lee in .303, one of 6 made for the Australian market. I shoot all of mine on an occasional to regular basis. I converted a No4 to L39A1 specs but firing .303 calibre, myself, and have a fair facsimile of an L42A1 in an Omark 44, one of the contenders for the Australian Army sniper rifle replacement. The one I shoot the most often (if I exclude my Martini Enfield .303) is my No1MkIII, made in Lithgow in 1916, converted to heavy barrel, and which still shoots a 12 inch metal plate at 300 yards on iron sights happily and repeatedly. Round about a 4MOA setup. An early Lithgow has to be the holy grail for any Australian, and 1916 is the last year before they started to increase tolerances in the receiver I am told (maybe a myth) which makes these rifles exceptional. Having the PAA numbers on it is also a bonus. This is not the case with mine, as when it was re-barrelled in the inter-war years the changed the bolt and re-did the head spacing. So, far from original but a true delight to shoot, over 100 years since it started life as a longarm. That, and the fact that it still shoots so well is why it ranks on top of my list, and one I will never part with willingly. I think that with my claw marks so firmly on it it must be THE Holy Grail for me.

[Matthew britton]

My holy grail would be a EAL Enfield. Didn't know too much about it when I bought it, just had a gut feeling it was something.

[nijalninja]

I haven't added anything here so I might throw my opinion out there.

My holy grail, or grails, are Enfield Rifles that have been forgotten and/or buried where they have sat for many decades. Sounds strange, but my dream is to one dig up a rifle from a dam, or a creek, or in a pile of rags under ground. Just the thought that they have sat away from people and away from the light gets me excited, especially if the rifle can be saved, which in many cases I reckon they can. I've saved a few rifles from the scrap which is close to that, but not quite.

Just imagine if you dug up a HT up the paddock one day?

[Roger Payne]

You ought to come over to the Somme - plenty of opportunity to find buried rifles there.....!

[Shuvlhead]

The grail for me is an excellent condition walnut forestock for a No.4 Mk.2. Seems like no-one has one anymore willing to part with!

[Frederick303]

To go shoot Bisley with a 7.62 regulated No 4 and do relatively well with it.

Almost managed it before my kids were born, now will have to wait until they are at least in their teens.