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    Anyone ever seen a Mk3/5

    Someone posted this in a Mewe group I run. Never seen it before myself. Anyone have any input?







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    Never seen,
    Never heard of,
    Someones 'good idea'

    A badly looked after, ridden hard and put away wet, covered with rattle-can and a screw and bits from the 'come in handy one day jar' that lives under the work-bench.

    Could it be one of the RTI rifles cleaned up ?

    (Never say never with an LE)
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    Quote Originally Posted by capt14k View Post
    Someone posted this in a Mewe group I run. Never seen it before myself. Anyone have any input?

    https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...43b97989-1.jpg


    While, I agree with the 'never say never' mantra, that receiver looks like a 5 year old has scrawled that with a nail.......and I would venture that those markings are 99.5% likely to be a bubba job.
    Just the thing for putting round holes in square heads.

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    That was my thinking as well. Feel bad for the guy. His first Enfield and he bought it at auction. I can just imagine what he paid


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    Looking at the wood to metal fit, wonder what the inside looks like?
    Regards, Jim

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    There may be a quite decent No4 Mk2 under the Tremclad brush-job and hashed up wood. The scratchings may be Bubba's attempt to redo what he had painted over, or perhaps a POFicon rifle pretending to be a Fazackerly?

    Looking at little more closely I see a "5" under the paint, so very likely a Fazackerly.

    A "37" is visible just behind the 5/5 scratching too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Surpmil View Post
    There may be a quite decent No4 Mk2 under the Tremclad brush-job and hashed up wood. The scratchings may be Bubba's attempt to redo what he had painted over, or perhaps a POFicon rifle pretending to be a Fazackerly?

    Looking at little more closely I see a "5" under the paint, so very likely a Fazackerly.

    A "37" visible just behind the 5/5 scratching too.


    My guess, it would possibly be a No4 Mk1/3
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    Begs the question where did he get the number from?
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    Agree with post #6. It's not a Savage as it has an angled receiver side wall ledge, yet it also has the milled flat typical of BSA, Savage, & Faz production. I'm almost certain it is indeed a Faz rifle, & the serial is quite possibly correct. The Mk3/5 may be fantasy, or what the owner thought he could see under the thick brushed on paint when he scratched it back in. The scratches look very superficial & are clearly done by hand, & would certainly polish out, if they did not all but disappear when the paint comes off. I don't necessarily buy that it's a wreck (it might be but it might not), although it needs some TLC.
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    I don't think it is a 5 but should read as "S". Compare it with the 5 written below. S could for example mean "Star". So No. 4 Mk.3*

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