PH M85 00131F in sold at auction in UK

[Roy W]

The front receiver ring is too long to be an m84/86/87 action. Also the top bar extends too far to the right side.

The action in question started as an M85 - looks to have been modified by removal of the rear sight wings and filling of the well that the rear sight sat in.

This has to be an assumption, unless you know of this particular rifle?

It seems like an awful lot of machining to mess up a very valuable action? And for what purpose?

[Roy W]

The other anomaly seems to be that the serial number is stamped into the bolt handle. All the ones I have owned and seen have been electro pencilled. Anyone got a stamped one?

[Lee Enfield]

This has to be an assumption, unless you know of this particular rifle?

It seems like an awful lot of machining to mess up a very valuable action? And for what purpose?

I blew up and clipped the photo from the auction.Attachment 133873

Please check out the photos in my above post (the one with the one with the green stock is the rifle in question).

I put photos of stripped m85 actions and a stripped m84/86/87 action in my previous post.Attachment 133864
- please check out the surface irregularities under the scope at the rear where the wings should be.

Comparison of the length of the front receiver ring dove tail confirms that the action in question is an m85.