Deactivated SMLE "Sniper" Rifle

[Simon P]

Wasn't this on the forum a while ago, before it was deactivated?

SMLE Sniper Rifle - MJLmilitaria

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Wasn't this on the forum a while ago, before it was deactivated?

SMLE Sniper Rifle - MJLmilitaria

Im sure the NRA Armourer had this up for sale at Bisley a few years back.

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[Simon]

Yes, that hideous specimen of someone's fertile imagination was indeed for sale at Bisley. From memory the asking price was somewhere in the region of £1600.

Cheers,

Simon.

[Beerhunter]

"This is the best-looking SMLE I have ever seen with the largest military scope I have ever seen. 100% original and not messed about with. I don’t know how to describe it!"

I DO know how to describe it!

[Roger Payne]

Yes, I've seen it at various arms fairs since it's been deactivated. I've only got snipers with titchy little aldis & such like scopes on them..............wish I had a BIG one like that.

(It's called scope envy).

[PrinzEugen]

Lordy not that one again! Some 'gunsmith'somewhere has a lot to answer for...

[Simon]

That thing is not the work of a true "Gunsmith"

[mr.e moose]

Witchypoo off of HR Puffingstuff might get a bit of chinweld on that one.

[CINDERS]

Maybe it should be de activated right away from the for sale - maybe it was a Mark for near sighted snipers to help them see futher in bad light conditions hence the large Objective lense, I like SMLE's immensely but this thing looks like it is a Frankenstein nightmare,"It lives"........

[Simon P]

It has an amazing price tag of £3,795 as well......

[Surpmil]

Must be what Maj. Koenig used in WWI, from behind British lines of course.