How sportered is my Enfield?

**Matt_mg** · 09-13-2008 06:23 PM

Sorry for the bad second picture. It's obviously missing wood and there are no markings on the stock.

Left side of the receiver is as is:
N4 Mk1 (F) FTR
/49 BS117**
Bolt and receiver have the same number, the mag's numbers are X'ed out and replaced with the same numbers as the receiver and bolt.

Right side has "England icon

" stamped on it.

The rear sight is a micrometer sight with a F stamped in the upper left. The rifle has the half-cock (I discovered that the hard way, I'm an Enfield noob and I thought I had seized up the rifle

thanks to this website I got the 1942 small arms manual and promptly slapped myself.), the cocking piece has grooves on it.

I'll get some proper macro pics if someone is interested. I'm wondering about the (F), I haven't seen it mentioned but I'm probably not looking hard enough in here

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**No4Mk1(T)** · 09-13-2008 09:48 PM

Short answer is your rifle is at least easily restorable. From the looks of things you still have the bayonet lug so the rest is just fitting a new forarm, hand guards with barrel bands and possibly a new butt stock depending on who badly sanded the one you have is. If they reused the original serial number during the FTR then I believe your rifle started life as a ROF Maltby. The (F) is for ROF Fazakerly, the facility where in 1949 the FTR was done. Look in the MKL icon

at any of the No.4 rifles and you will have an idea what it should look like when finished (assuming that is what you want to do with the rifle.)

**Gary D** · 09-14-2008 08:00 PM

Looks identical to the '43 Long Branch I just picked up. Still has the Bayonet lugs and sight guard in place, which means a new set of wood and bands and she's ready to go. Keep in mind that you will likely need to do some bedding to make it shoot properly with new wood.

**Matt_mg** · 09-15-2008 10:26 AM

Thanks, it answers my questions. I'll get around to it when I have more money to spend on Milsurps (the eternal problem)

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