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08-09-2008 07:49 PM
# ADS
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One resides in CT. Have been looking for 8 years now for the Siamese bayonet with the same s/n. No luck yet.....
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Very rare with matching numbers, I have never seen one. Most have pretty poor woodwork on them and look rough, I have seen some OK ones from time to time.
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For $50 I'd say you made a god buy.
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Got one too
I picked one of these up for not too much off a guy I know. My first rifle-and the first of many enfields I hope. It had been residing in someones basement as a forgotten moose rifle for years. The cosmo had never been well cleaned -there was a big glob in the screw on the back of the cocking piece. The bolt was sticky, the bore dusty and dirty, and the butt stock loose. A good cleaning later, and the rifling is strong, and the bore is dark, but not pitted or scratched. The numbers don't match, and the wood is sporterised, but I am thinking of restoring her as much as I am able.
Speaking of, does anyone know if the safety spring was always the barbell type shown in the Knowledge Library
? mine is in the 83XX range, so it is somewhat later than the example.
I am in Ontario Canada
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Uhh... bump?
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These were called by the Siamese as Type 62 (Buddist Year 2462)
Patrick
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I saw my first one at a gun show in Truro Nova Scotia, Canada
last fall. I didn't check the numbers, it didn't look too bad but the owner said it was unsafe to shoot. I don't remember the reason.