C No7 .22 has a new home

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Picked up this beuty at Auction cost me a couple of Limbs but its worth it .
its in pristeen condition she been looked after for sure . a sweet companion piece for my Mk 8 . It came with the wooden case cleaning rod oiler etc i recently bought an old longbranch 303 sporter with a mag with a .22 follower in it so i have 2 mags. The one that came with it is marked .22 .
i could have went daft at the auction and bought the Blond one . i never seen an enfield with wood so white it was also a C# 7 no box , and looked like it never been touched let alone fired .
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I think i may need surgery to get the smile off my face now i own this baby :D
 
I had a literally perfect Cno7 a few years ago. It belonged in a museum it was so perfect.
Some saw it at the Calgary Gun Show 3 or so years ago.

I couldn't even insert the magazine...it didn't have a mark on it.

Moved it along as I couldn't do a thing with it...the new owner was happy, and I asked him if he could bring himself to insert the mag?
He said he had done so but was now afraid to pull it out to see scratches on it...:eek:

The acid test on Cno7's is the s/n area on the buttsocket. If it is original profile, never scrubbed with a flattened area, matching 0L, or 1L numbers there and on the bolt...then it's likely an original.

So many were built up on scrubbed receivers.
 
Yes it was the bud haynes Auction . the reciever is new and original not been scrubbed , its very clean all numbers match low number i guess it should be for 1946 lots of beutiful C broad arrow marks on every part it seems .
here is a poor picture of the blondie from the bud haynes book .
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it was in awesome shape like i said looked like it haddnt been held by any one let alone fired . i know i was going to come home with one or the other lol .
this is my Enfield family , oh i have a couple of sporter Martini enfields .
oddly enough the C No7 cost as much as the rest below it together .
CNo 7
Mk 8
DACRA 308
Mk4 303
MkIII
P 14
P17
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ianwd said:
Yes it was the bud haynes Auction . the reciever is new and original not been scrubbed , its very clean all numbers match low number i guess it should be for 1946 lots of beutiful C broad arrow marks on every part it seems .
here is a poor picture of the blondie from the bud haynes book .
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it was in awesome shape like i said looked like it haddnt been held by any one let alone fired . i know i was going to come home with one or the other lol .
this is my Enfield family , oh i have a couple of sporter Martini enfields .
oddly enough the C No7 cost as much as the rest below it together .
CNo 7
Mk 8
DACRA 308
Mk4 303
MkIII
P 14
P17
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What a nice collection! I just started mine, so it's pretty sad in comparison. I have a LB No.4, a ROF No.5, and a couple revolvers (Mk1 and Mk1*). I had a sportered P14 but let it go cause I couldn't see restoring it in the near future. I really want an SMLE now.

I've never even heard of a Mk8. I guess I know what I'm doing tonight...Mk8 research a la internet! Thanks for posting.
 
I've never even heard of a Mk8. I guess I know what I'm doing tonight...Mk8 research a la internet! Thanks for posting.[/QUOTE]

here is a better piccy of the Mk 8 its the model i shot when i was an air cadet many moons ago . this one was made at Fazakerly In england in 51
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when they publish what the other C #7 went for with out the box ill have an idea.
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The other rifle (lot C29) sold for $700. This one Lot B89) sold for $1400. Not sure the crates are worth $700.

The other one was listed as possibly unfired. Between the blond wood, the non-standard serial number listed, and the low price, I suspect it may be a put-together, but only good photos would tell the tale.

Seems like the Cno7s kind of stalled in price the last few years while the run of the mill no4mk1* were catching up. Good to see that the quality Cno7s are finally moving up again.
 
Let us know what the serial number is. Maybe we can find its rifle here. Well ya never know. I bought a transit box a while back for thrity bucks from a surplus store close to Redwater.
 
From the information I have received from a few senior weapons techs, there were only two reasonable sized releases of surplus Cno7s (numbering in the low hundreds) as well as small quantities sold to some of the shooting clubs back in the day. Hundreds is not thousands were torn down for parts, several thousand remain in service, and over the last 50 years, any damaged rifles would have been smelted. The odds of matching up a crate with a surplus rifle are very very small.

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