Enfield No2 MK*

[Aragorn243]

Wood grips, good condition, shiny bore. Has a faint import mark on the bottom of the barrel. Bought it figuring the holster was a repro but now think it's probably original as there a lot of these in this condition on the market. Import crudely etched serial on the butt. Not sure the reason for this as the serial number is on the bottom of the frame.

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[Mikesm44]

Nice!

[browningautorifle]

Gun looks nice. The holster is likely good, the proof mark looks right to me. They made scads of them so there should be enough new ones to carry on until rapture.

[mmppres]

Just have fun an shoot it

[Aragorn243]

So what's with the wood grips? I know they were made, obviously, but my sources I've read all indicate plastic grips yet photos show numerous examples of the wood ones. Were these used early with plastic taking over as the war progressed? This has the later Enfield mark, no date that I can find.

[Peter Laidler]

All the wood grips were made at Enfield and the plastic ones sub contracted for outside as production increased. The sort you have, both wood and plastic, were supposed to be the best and the only ones we could get towards the end of its service. Ours were all modified on the left side to clear the barrel latch.

[Gil Boyd]

Looks like a nice example of a much sort after pistol and looks like it has spent most of its life in the holster. A really accurate and well balanced piece. De-Acs make good money too, saw one yesterday for £300.

[Peter Laidler]

I carried one when necessary for 2+ years Gil and I'm not too sure that I'd put it in the 'accurate' category!!!!!!! We used to classify every couple of months with our personal weapon plus our 'service' weapon which for us REME/RAEME types was our pistol (or SMG) plus a rifle. With my revolver I just learned to shoot '......up or down a bit'. Mind you, our ammo allocation was dire, as was my level of shooting. It was said to be two rounds per man per year per haps - or something like that! The Armourers shop got a bigger allocation for range testing

[Gil Boyd]

Always preferred the crossed thumbs double hand/double action shooting with the Enfield and later S&W Mod 10.
Had to quickly get that out of my head as we progressed to Brownings, otherwise I had a groove coming and that was somewhat painful

[Peter Laidler]

Amazing but true, when we used to classify on the ranges, we had to shoot single handed and only using the single/straight through action* as it was called. It was only later that the RD/Mil Trg staff let us shoot double handed. I used to cup the revolver in my left hand and shoot right handed of course. Same as shooting comps when armed with them. Even the application/aimed shots were the same - with a re-load to boot as I recall. Snap and rapids were too of course. Mind you, the snaps and rapids could be fired from the waist if you were good. Alas, even on the 'watch and shoot' walk-down to 10 yards and sort-of aiming I was rubbish. Mind you, some of the blokes were very good from the waist. Know your pistol was the thing.

*As a bit of an aside, there was always a bit of mystery about who was right with the 'single' and 'double action' revolvers. So as Armourers we always had to qualify what we said especially in a report. So far as I was concerned, the Mk1 revolver was a DOUBLE action pistol in that I could shoot it TWO ways. Whereas the Mk1* and 1**'s were single action. In that you could only shoot it in ONE straight through action. Even the old EMER was a bit, er........ ambiguous! That was always said to be the higher echelons of the REME/RAEME/RNZEME covering their backsides