Information on my Lee-Enfield please

[ParkAvenue]

So Ugly Betty is in my possession! I will take photos of her later today to upload them onto my photobucket account. Me and my father went to the range Sunday and I had the honor of shooting her first. At 25 yards, after 5 rounds, I started tagging the bulls eye in a group the size of a quarter. Bad thing was, I had to aim far right just to do it. It shoots way left so now I have to find a sight tool or make one myself. 50 yards I started tagging the bulls eye again, just like the 25 yard mark. 100 yards, well I am going to have to do like my father did with his Enfield and put up a monstrous piece of cardboard just to figure out where the bullets are going. It is going to be fun though, I really like how this gun shoots. On the left hand side of the stock in white letters is the 5 BN 65 then on the right hand side of the stock are faded white numbers that look like 248. All numbers except for the magazine match. On the rail there is a chip missing which makes it so the bolt slides off the rail easily but my father has a guy who can weld a piece to fit the chip if I want to do that. Bolt is surprisingly smooth though, and I was racking rounds as fast as I could. I think I may have found my military shoot competition rifle! The old SKS really was not the weapon for me to shoot for the competition because it got me way to excited and 15 seconds into the rounds I was the first done. My father also passed down to me his prized 1939 Tula Mosin with all numbers matching and none of the numbers struck out. Also scored bayonets for both rifles. I am going to make charcoal shadings of the marks on this rifle also.


By the way, it was really hard for me to type correctly when I first made this post because I had a cat on my head and a cat in my lap. Please pardon all my foul ups

[ParkAvenue]

So it's safe to say your Dad didn't marry her then?

Forgive me, but I was wondering why Grandma was only letting you have one gun each from the collection?

Well not really to sure, it was just what I was told by her. There are enough guns for each grandchild to have 4 a piece. I am thinking she is going to keep the left overs in case she needs the cash she can sell the remaining guns.

[ParkAvenue]

So I have a few pictures of which I am going to share!


Lee Enfield Rifle Slideshow by LadyGunner225 | Photobucket


Right now this is all anyone is going to get, I am now going to take and throw both my computer and cell phone in the street so they can meet their demise! Took me over 4 hours just to get both to agree to disagree and upload pictures.


I forgot to mention earlier about the handguard. It is really loose, you can grab it and move it a hair. My father says this is normal and nothing to worry about but it does bug me a little bit. I have a book coming about how to disassemble this rifle so that I can get a clearer look at anything that may be hidden.

---------- Post added at 11:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:23 PM ----------

Oh and I totally forgot to let everyone know I was wrong in my original post! Ugly Betty is a No4 MK 1 *