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[sam54]

I unwrapped this last night:



I will post more pics after work

Both the wood and steel seem to be in excellant condition. Lots of cosmoline / grease. The bore cleaned up very well strong rifling and bright.

Picked up raw linseed oil for the wood

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[Peter Laidler]

Fantastic................. That makes every still sealed and wrapped one even rarer. You mark my words Sam. In a years time you'll be absolutely kicking yourself at the very idea of unwrapping a brand new, in the original Ordnance wrapper, unused, unfired Lee Enfield. Now, instead of being all those irreplaceable features all wrapped up in one package that can never be replicated, it's just another bog standard No4 Mk2 of which there are probably 50,000 or so sloshing around the market place.

[sam54]

Fantastic................. That makes every still sealed and wrapped one even rarer. You mark my words Sam. In a years time you'll be absolutely kicking yourself at the very idea of unwrapping a brand new, in the original Ordnance wrapper, unused, unfired Lee Enfield. Now, instead of being all those irreplaceable features all wrapped up in one package that can never be replicated, it's just another bog standard No4 Mk2 of which there are probably 50,000 or so sloshing around the market place.

I know sir and those very thoughts went through my mind before I decided to make the purchase. But greedy me I wanted to shoot a brand new Lee Enfield, hold it, look at it and care for it. BTW thank you for your posts, thanks for sharing your training and experiences.

[Lee Enfield]

I know sir and those very thoughts went through my mind before I decided to make the purchase. But greedy me I wanted to shoot a brand new Lee Enfield, hold it, look at it and care for it. BTW thank you for your posts, thanks for sharing your training and experiences.

Keep up the good work.

I'll buy yours in 2 years for $400 and shoot it, while mine stays comfortably in it's wrap and continues to increase exponentially in value...

[villiers]

You could, of course, use the wrapping paper to wrap a piece of wood and just TELL people that there´s a No 2 inside (I´ve got a Mauser K98k sniper and several other rare weapons, all wrapped up and even I sometimes believe that they´re all in there.)

[terryinvictoria]

Yup I have one that came out of the wrap-- the coolest part was pushing a patch thru the bore from the chamber and watching the gfreasy material squeeze out the muzzle like squeezing a tube of toothpaste I am not sure if it was softened cosmolene it did look like cosmolene but also like brownish golden gease.

But I have never shot it.[IMG][/IMG]
It is the closest rifle a No4 Mk2
Regards
TerryinVictoria

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I would like to find myself with the same problem. I undersand the value entrinsic and otherwise to a wrapped Enfiled but they are such works of mecanical art to leave under cover. I think it would be a tough decision to make (wrap/unwrap/unwrap & shoot.)

[Peter Laidler]

You can shoot almost a million of them HoH. Take it from me, shooting one is much the same as shooting another. So why open the one that you've got when you KNOW that it'll shoot just like any of the others million? Just my 2c's worth!

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

You can shoot almost a million of them HoH. Take it from me, shooting one is much the same as shooting another. So why open the one that you've got when you KNOW that it'll shoot just like any of the others million? Just my 2c's worth!

I will have to concede you to be correct on substance.The same market forces apply to the value of most collectables. New in wrapper= high value. Knowing my own curious nature I would probably pass one up for fear I would unwrap and regret. Given the choice I might opt for one of the demo rifles in the other current post. It would be unwrapped and disected already.

[Charlie]

"I'll buy yours in 2 years for $400 and shoot it,"
Not anywhere I've been lately. More like $600-800. At the last Reno show a guy had one in the wrap for $1400, no takers.