Why do you love your Lee Enfield?

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Why do you guys love your Lee Enfield? Certainly not because of here looks! Is it the because of the dependability and reliability? The 10 round magazine on a military bolt action? Because she still makes an ideal deer hunting rifle that you can count on? The cartridge she uses? Or is it because Canadian soldiers used it in WW1, WW2, Korea, and you are holding an important part of history in our hands?
 
I vote for all of the above, and yes, I even think mine looks pretty darned good, always loved the streamlined look of the No4. Doesn't hurt that the last few generations of my family have carried them to war and came back to tell the story.
 
czechitout said:
Absolutely everything, I hate mine. Give me a Mosin Nagant any day.
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#### just got real.



I love the history more than anything. Canada is a young country, we need to preserve what little history we can before the libs and antis and other more politically correct persons erase it on us.
 
Certainly not because of here looks!

I would think you would take this one to the dance!!
not a bad looking old gal.

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My M/N reminds me of a Jack-all. Handy, simple, tough, dangerous as hell.
But it's a brute simple tool; unrefined IMO
My L/E's are more along the lines of a much better constructed tool, they feel good in your hand.
My Grandfather fought with one in WW2; just like generations before; somehow that makes a difference.
It'll do pretty much anything you need to do with it; 'nuff said



Also the ability to get shells at almost any small town Macleods or Gas station is awesome. Can't do that with an M/N
 
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czechitout said:
Absolutely everything, I hate mine. Give me a Mosin Nagant any day.
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well if you hate it so much you can sell it to me ...... well

but back to the topic, nostalgia is my reason it was the first gun i shot and well i have been looking for one from the minute i got my pal

now manitou210 that is one beautiful old gal i would love to take for a dance
 
I have a No.5 Mk. 1 1944 Made at Faz. I love her to bits! She is small, handy, a piece of our Imperial history, and was carried in WWII and Korea, brought back and is an amazing shooter, takes a good solid round dependable for over 100 years now, and is my ultimate go-to rifle. 10 round magazine never hurts anything at all... but most importantly that a man who served in our great nation long ago held this in his hands, his friend, tool and weapon, to defend his life and that of his people in a cause he fought for with his life. God Bless the Veterans, your spirit lives on in my collection!
 
I love learning about History. As my grandparents were English, I'm somewhat biased as to what interests me most, of course. That is what my LE's are to me: touchstones to Canadian, Commonwealth, and World History, and my own history. It's rifles like my Enfields that several men of my family carried off to the European trenches.

When I have my old girls in my hands I know that I'm holding a piece of that history- probably with stories to tell, if they could. I wonder where they have been and what they have seen. Did they see the turning points? Ypres, Passchendaele, Normandy? Did they share the same trench or the same path to the Front as my family did? While I'll likely never know the answers, I do know that these are real possibilities.

The men who carried my rifles in wartime are long gone and I will never know their stories. Handling and firing my Enfields in peacetime is to my mind a link with, and a salute to, those men. And, by only a little extension, it is a link to the men of my family who also went off to war.
 
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