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Need help identfying Enfield rifile
Need help with Identification. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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06-02-2012 12:06 PM
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Just from the photo, it's a RIFLE, short, magazine, Lee Enfield or SMLE for short. It's Mk3 (or 3/1 or 3* depending where you were taught) or a RIFLE, .303" No1 Mk3 made by BSA in 19xx sometime. I'm sure that if you put up a few more pictures there'll be some much further detail heading your way
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Thank You to Peter Laidler For This Useful Post:
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Thanks Peter will try for more pics. Am looking to buy rifle looks to be in good shape. Rifle is missing magazine, are they hard to find? thanks again.
Last edited by Pineknot; 06-02-2012 at 12:35 PM.
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More pictures
More receiver pictures , has some kind of scope mount on it.[ATTACH]Attachment 34265[/ATTACH]
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I'll leave comments on the scope mount to the rest of the forumers. But it may well be the death knell of the rifle if you want something original or special...
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Fore-end off a Ishapore 2A or 2A1,
Last edited by bigduke6; 06-02-2012 at 04:46 PM.
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From the "L" prefix and finish its possibly a 1940 BSA No1 MkIII, just on the cusp of the changeover from when they stopped making "proper" MkIII rifles and started making Dispersals. That could explain why the date might have been omitted - later it was the "SA & Co" that was deleted, leaving just the "B".
It looks like its been rebuilt as someone's project however - Ishapore wood, as bigduke6 mentions.
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What interests me ( I really should get out more) is that is has both a Crowned GR AND Birmingham Military Proof. The latter was only applied to so-called "commercials", that is to say rifles that were not built for HM Government.
So that lead me to: it was either a rifle that was taken up by the government at some time or sold by the government between the wars an thus needed "civilian" Proof.
Any comments on my proposition?
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Yes I have Beery...... I and others dispute that the BM is Birmingham Military proof.
It is a Military proof or it's a Birmingham commercially acceptable proof but it cannot be both. The UK
Military have no knowledge of a 'Birmingham Military' proof
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