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Unisuued No4 MK2 Enfields.
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LVSteve
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No problem with Ishapores. I have them in .303 and 7.62 NATO.
Texas Star
US Veteran
I also have this interesting one...a 1957 dated "F", marked as FTR
Is the stock cracked on the right?
CptCurl
SWCA Member
Is anyone wanting to let go of one of these beauties?
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shadow4golf
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I bought one very similar from a shop on Long Island in the mid 90s. They'd taken all of them out of the wrap and had them in a barrel in the middle of the store at $50 each.
I don't have that one anymore, but I do have 2 other No4 rifles.
I don't have that one anymore, but I do have 2 other No4 rifles.
Beautiful guns there. My #4 Mk1* appears to have "been there" during WWII and is a bit of a collector's item. It was made by Savage/Stevens here in the U.S. during WWII for the Brits. I also have an unopened box of .303 British ammo made by Winchester specifically for these rifles during the war. Very interesting and classic rifles.
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Glenn R. McMannly
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The Enfield always played second fiddle to the Mauser, and for good reason.
The Mauser is a much stronger, much more accurate rifle. More reliable as the cases are rimless too.
The Mauser is a much stronger, much more accurate rifle. More reliable as the cases are rimless too.
LostintheOzone
US Veteran
My dad cut one down for a deer rifle in the 60's. Not sure what it was exactly but it came in the mail in the original wrapping.
He shot several deer with it and thought it was a pretty good rifle. Then again he was a ww2 vet who enlisted in 44 and did all of his time in the 3rd ID in Italy, France and Germany until the end of the war. He was partial to aperture sights.
He shot several deer with it and thought it was a pretty good rifle. Then again he was a ww2 vet who enlisted in 44 and did all of his time in the 3rd ID in Italy, France and Germany until the end of the war. He was partial to aperture sights.
.455_Hunter
Member
ROFL!
I needed some good comedy.
Did you seriously revive a 4.5 year old thread just to post that "expert" assessment?
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smoothshooter
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For someone who knows and understands the British habit / obsession with adding marks every time the guns were reworked or shipped to other countries, these marks read like a book of the gun’s history.
Exmilcop
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Granted, I'm biased toward the Lee Enfields, but "always played second fiddle"? For the ranges involved in action, the Lee Enfield was actually a better rifle. You had a faster bolt action, 10 rnds. to the Mauser's 5, and better sights. In WWI, the "old contemptibles" laid down such heavy fire that the Germans thought they were up against machine gun battalions. The Lee Enfield sniper rifles were very highly regarded with most pundits stating that if they had a critique, it was the weight. I live not too far from the old Long Branch arsenal lands in Toronto and as a young guy, I cut my teeth on the Lee Enfields and nailed my first deer with one. Again, I admit my bias, but my favourite of them all was the 1950 Long Branch rifles that came on the market many years ago. If the story is true, they were discovered in a NATO warehouse in Belgium all crated in the grease. They were all stocked in black walnut and the metal was a lovely blued finish not the ugly suncorite or even the parkerized finish of the wartime production. I've sold all my collectibles, but that's still my personal most loved of them all.
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Back in the late 1970s I was looking for a nice SMLE to shoot, but couldn't find one. But I was able to buy an ANIB Enfield No. 4 Mk I from a local gun shop, complete with spike bayonet and scabbard for $150. The Long Branch rifle's wood stock was perfect, and it still had cosmoline grease in the barrel and action. I never did shoot that rifle, I guess because it was so nice, and ended up trading it years later. I wish I had kept it.
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