.22RF Pattern 1914 Short Rifle No.1 - And others from the Melbourne Antique Arms Fair

[Maxwell Smart]

Can you recall what sort of price was on the No 8's?

[bigduke6]

aussietomcatter,

Nice rifle, hope your going to shoot it ? I shoot all mine (.22 Enfields) athough limited on two of them as they are now "part of a collection", my Mk1V gets a run out all the time for a winter postal leauge. As for price I wouldnt hesitate for what you paid, good examples are becoming hard to find.

[Son]

Can you recall what sort of price was on the No 8's?

I spoke to him while he was looking at them, IIRC the No8's were $1200

[Brian Dick]

I have the mate to your P'14 Sht. No.1, started out as an Enfield 1897 LE Mk.1, converted to Enfield 1905 SHT. LE Cond II and then .22 PATT '14 No.1!! It's also sports Australian ownership marks. Whew, wish it could talk.

[Colonel Enfield]

Somebody has to be selling for the price to $400 to $700.

Every gun shop I have ever been to has SMLEs for sale and there's always tables full of them at the gun shows. Plenty of people are selling, they just want unreasonable prices for them IMHO.

[Maxwell Smart]

I spoke to him while he was looking at them, IIRC the No8's were $1200

Thanks for that.

[aussietomcatter]

I have the mate to your P'14 Sht. No.1, started out as an Enfield 1897 LE Mk.1, converted to Enfield 1905 SHT. LE Cond II and then .22 PATT '14 No.1!! It's also sports Australian ownership marks. Whew, wish it could talk.

That's actually pretty exciting mate, you should throw some pics up! I am very much smitten with this rifle!

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aussietomcatter,

Nice rifle, hope your going to shoot it ? I shoot all mine (.22 Enfields) athough limited on two of them as they are now "part of a collection", my Mk1V gets a run out all the time for a winter postal leauge. As for price I wouldnt hesitate for what you paid, good examples are becoming hard to find.

Yes, I intend to shoot it. I also have a No2 MkIV, so I have a couple of trainers to choose from now. I intend to keep adding trainers as they turn up though.

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I spoke to him while he was looking at them, IIRC the No8's were $1200

Yep, $1200 a pop, was considering one myself. There are still a couple of things there that I am going to ring him back up to see if he still has in a couple of weeks.. haha