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    This one up for grabs.

    A 1944 dated action for XP60 listed on Used Guns, an Australianicon website for outright sale, not auctioned, ........only $16000.
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    A Collector's View - The SMLE Short Magazine Lee Enfield 1903-1989. It is 300 8.5x11 inch pages with 1,000+ photo’s, most in color, and each book is serial-numbered.  Covering the SMLE from 1903 to the end of production in India in 1989 it looks at how each model differs and manufacturer differences from a collecting point of view along with the major accessories that could be attached to the rifle. For the record this is not a moneymaker, I hope just to break even, eventually, at $80/book plus shipping.  In the USA shipping is $5.00 for media mail.  I will accept PayPal, Zelle, MO and good old checks (and cash if you want to stop by for a tour!).  CLICK BANNER to send me a PM for International pricing and shipping. Manufacturer of various vintage rifle scopes for the 1903 such as our M73G4 (reproduction of the Weaver 330C) and Malcolm 8X Gen II (Unertl reproduction). Several of our scopes are used in the CMP Vintage Sniper competition on top of 1903 rifles. Brian Dick ... BDL Ltd. - Specializing in British and Commonwealth weapons Specializing in premium ammunition and reloading components. Your source for the finest in High Power Competition Gear. Here at T-bones Shipwrighting we specialise in vintage service rifle: re-barrelling, bedding, repairs, modifications and accurizing. We also provide importation services for firearms, parts and weapons, for both private or commercial businesses.
     

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    I saw that one on usedguns Muffet opened my wallet and the moths flew out leaving nothing so had to pass....deep pocketed people may buy it!

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    I don't know...it would need much verification before I bought something like that. I built one myself for a man that wanted one.
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    The interesting part on these is the fiddly, charger-guide-mounted rear sight. Something of a challenge for the enthusiast.

    There is more information on these in a couple of Ian Skennertonicon's books.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce_in_Oz View Post
    the fiddly, charger-guide-mounted rear sight
    Agreed, seen. Still, I'd just as soon look at it in someone else's collection out of interest.
    Regards, Jim

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    The asking price of that rifle is why I have no interest in collecting the experimental Lithgowicon's.

    That's a whole lot of standard Lithgow service rifles that may have seen a bit of action I could buy, rather than one rifle that sat in the rack it's whole life.

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    It's very easy to seperate the fakes from the genuine item with these regardless of the rear sight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    I don't know...it would need much verification before I bought something like that. I built one myself for a man that wanted one.
    Different action to a No1 MkIII on this one Jim, the rear sight is mounted on a modified casting, very similar to a No4.

    Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike1967 View Post
    Different action to a No1 MkIII
    Very hard to see, but like I say, I'd love to have a look anyway. I'm aware of the EX Aussies...but not actually held one.
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    And that "Rifle, Intermediate" was the platform for the "Bayonet, Parachutist", commonly called the “Machete Bayonet”.

    If you take a quick look at one of these beauties in isolation, and didn't know what it fitted, it looks like the designers stuffed up badly with the design, as the "muzzle ring" lines up very nicely with the top 1/2" or so of the blade height.

    Once mounted on the SMLE-style nose-cap, with its "low-rider" bayonet boss and sword bar, on the "Intermediate" (or standard' rifle), it all makes sense.

    The entire concept of the "intermediate" rifle and its bayonet is in the name of the bayonet: "Parachutist". These were conceived as a"package" to equip the rapidly growing airborne units that were to be used in the big pushes up through the islands of south-east Asia and if needed, an assault on Japanicon itself. The bayonet was more a "multi-tool": parachute-shroud cutter, entrenching tool, and jungle basher, than a serious "bayonet", though I imagine it would leave quite a mark if used for that purpose.

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