Most expensive L42 A1

[superbee]

I know of one that sold for $6500.00 canadian two years ago!

[Amatikulu]

I happen to know that the specific rifle listed on usedguns dot com dot au was sold a year ago in the USA. Obviously they are extremely rare in Australia

[Brian Dick]

Bear in mind too that the U.S. State Department will no longer approve them for export because they're in the dreaded 7.62x51 NATO caliber. They're very rare in Australia and New Zealand. I managed to export four to NZ back in the 1990's, a couple back to England and a few to Canada. I'm glad I was able to make it happen.

[xa-coupe]

Funny how they will allow 308W out as fast as they can make them. Without going into THAT argument, the situation is pretty stupid... we are all getting governments that are saving us from ourselves. In one way, I am glad that there are more there than here, I predict that in my lifetime even more firearms will be crushed in the interests of 'public safety'.

I suppose I have just not been up with the times. It's now the Attack of the Clones, but the trick is to make it as close to the real thing as possible.

[OxfordAndy]

I asked in Fulton's a couple of weeks ago for a mate of mine down in Aus who was looking for an L42A1 - was told (with much shaking of heads and intakes of breath) that they are like the proverbial rocking horse muck and i should budget around £8000 for a good one with all the trappings!

That makes this one about AU$3,000 under price....BARGAIN!!!!

He told me about this one a few days ago adn was heading down the ATM to check his balance!

[xa-coupe]

Wow, I am clearly out of my league here.

[OxfordAndy]

Seems to me that rarity combined with the dreaded "s" word is a license to print money.

Maybe it is time for some guidance notes on how to build a replica L42A1??

[newcastle]

A few years back when I got mine I paid what I considered was waaay too much at the time, not too much for the rifle, just I couldn't really afford that amount for somethign that Pater laidlers book said numbered in teh thousands. However I'm an impulsive idiot and got it anyway and haven't regretted it. Since then Peter I understand has revised estimates of how many L42's were made down significantly to about 1100 or so, maybe somone can confirm that. Someone on this very forum said - you never pay too much for an enfield, you just buy it too early. I've only been collecting these things about 6 years but I have NEVER seen the prices go down on anything LE oriented when sold in the maintream area. You get the odd bonus by wandering into a pawn shop or secindhand stoire or estate sale but the internet and wide amount of available information has made sure that pretty much everyone knows what they have got before they go to sell it.

[xa-coupe]

All this discussion is making me wish I had the 10k all of a sudden ... but I also have the paranoia brought about by having to watch 3 separate batches of firearms being taken from me under various 'public safety' smokescreens over the years. Not sure if I want to watch a bit of history get crushed again.

[Gnr527]

OxfordAndy

I was in Fultons last year(might just have been 2008) and they had an L42 on the counter - in the box and I think it was with all the trimmings - for ( I'm pretty sure it was) £3,500.

Not knocking Fultons - they are more in touch with the market than most - but is that a bubble, or what?

John