-
FREE MEMBER
NO Posting or PM's Allowed
Need help identifying mystery proof/import mark
Last edited by mjkberg; 04-19-2009 at 11:29 PM.
Reason: correction
-
04-19-2009 11:20 PM
# ADS
Friends and Sponsors
-
-
-
-
Advisory Panel
Crown over squiggle would be crown over intertwined G and P.
-
-
Advisory Panel
The proof mark is for London (vice Birmingham). A fairly common mark, I have had it on most of my no4Ts.
-
-
FREE MEMBER
NO Posting or PM's Allowed
Thank you to all. This is the only Enfield I have and it was given to me by my dad. I was researching it to find out its history. The story is that my dad was in college in Minnesota from 1965-1969 and he traded a radio in exchange for the rifle. Dad said he only paid $15 for the radio.
So if a WWII Enfield sling is appropriate. I will have to find one next.
Thanks again.
-
FREE MEMBER
NO Posting or PM's Allowed
Just got off the phone with dad and apparently his college room mate traded someone a minibike in for the Enfield Rifle, then dad traded a radio for it when he was in college. Dad said at Iowa state you were allowed to keep long guns in your dorm room but no pistols or ammo. His room mate had a gun cabinet with a sawed off shotgun, an M1 Garand and an M1917 Enfield that was re-chambered for .308 Norma Magnum. He said that M1917 in .308 Norma Mag was brutal to shoot. His room mate would pull black tip .30 cal AP bullets and reload them into .308 Norma. He would shoot concrete bridge abutments and the bullets would go in 3" but a two foot wide sheet of concrete would be blasted off. Good times.
-
Deceased August 31st, 2020
Tsk, tsk. Them college kids and guns
-