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"Irish Contract" rifles
Is there a specific serial number range for the No4 Mk2 "Irish Contract" rifles??
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01-01-2019 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by
Frederick303
Reading this link shows just how much research has been done in recent years and how wanting the accepted official serial number range are.
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Fritz's FF marked Enfield sticky - Page 2
read post # 61
Many thanks for the heads up on that post, it certainly opened my eyes to the amount of research that has gone into this much talked about question. Is anyone on this forum collecting details / information about them as I seem to have at least one from the correct serial number range and possibly a second?
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I have a Canadian
Ranger Irish contract rifle. I have read that the Canadian government bought some of the Irish contracts and I am wondering if there is a specific serial number block for those Ranger rifles. Mine is 1/54 PF3152xx
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Originally Posted by
gerard488
I have read that the
Canadian government bought some of the Irish contracts
Was there any specification as to where they came from? I would wonder if they were an LPO here from one of the dealers as a bulk purchase? We were running out of full wood #4 rifles of any description and they were down to cannibalization.
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Was there any specification as to where they came from? I would wonder if they were an LPO here from one of the dealers as a bulk purchase? We were running out of full wood #4 rifles of any description and they were down to cannibalization.
They supposedly bought 500 of them on the surplus market in roughly 2000.
They issued them (for the first time from what i was told) for the RCMP honor guard of the Mayerthorpe rcmp funeral in 2005.
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The last import lot of rifles out of Ireland was brought into Canada in 1997. Most of them headed south to the US in 2002, after the 5 year limit was reached.
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Originally Posted by
Lee Enfield
They supposedly bought 500 of them on the surplus market in roughly 2000.
That makes perfect sense...
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