Hi all,

I have been pondering a deeply anorak question regarding WW2 SMLE production.

Quite a few of the 1942/43 rifles on the market today appear to be made up from unused/dismantled WW2 parts, or subject to the massive post war BSA refurbishment program .... I suspect this (and the PH/Interarms enormous bulk Enfield buy) is also the origin of many of the available SMLE bolt/action bodies still floating round the trade.

As a result of this, they tend to have No4 butts fitted. Nothing wrong with that as this was common place anyway, as Peter, Roger and others have said many times in the past.

What I'm pondering is this, were these dispersal rifles fitted with SMLE pattern butts 'as originally assembled' in WW2, or were they fitted with the No4 butts?

Told you it was an anorak question!
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