1901 Lee Enflield

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I was wondering if the more knowledgeable could make some observations.

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It has a bolt, I believe, from a Lee Enfield carbine. No serial no.

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The mag cutoff is still in place.

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Missing the volley sight.

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A couple photos of the sight.

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Anyone know what this stamp is?

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The serial number on the barrel and the receiver look like they might be matching. Too bad it is battered up.

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Sorry I can't help, but damn is that ###y! I definitely have an attraction to older firearms. I don't care if the ammo is pricey, Lee Enfields are awesome!
 
Okay, you are looking at 1901-manufactured MAGAZINE LEE-ENFIELD rifle, MARK ONE, STAR.

It was built by Birmingham Small Arms on contract for the Imperial Government, probably right in the middle of the Boer War.

Somebody, a long time ago, has tried to remove the serial number but were not completely successful.

The Roundel on the Buttstock is the official manufacturer's roundel for Army rifles. It identifies the rifle as a Lee-Enfield Mark I*, tells you that it was made by BSA and tells you that they are in Birmingham. The Arrow in the middle is the broad Arrow, marking the rifle as Government stores.

Yes, that definitely appears to be a Carbine bolt. Number should be on the rear face of the handle.

I am wondering if this was a 'bitser' sent home in pieces and reassembled.

You are missing the Link for the magazine. It is just a single link to connect the parts.

How long is your barrel? Factory length when new was 30.2" from the face of the closed Bolt, to the Muzzle.

This rifle will have a single-stage trigger with the trigger/sear interface being a knuckle type rather than the sliding bell-crank of the later models. These can produce a VERY nice letoff.

That 'flag' Safety is so sweet to work with. Locks the whole rifle solid when applied.

If somebody dumped one of these into my post-office box, I would NOT complain at all!

VERY nice Toy. Needs some TLC but it will repay any efforts many times over. Lotsa fun showing up at the range with a century-old iron-sight rifle and making the guys with the modern stuff wonder why their spent their $$$.

You might be interested to know (and so will LIAMTHEDEVASTATOR ..... and welcome aboard!) that it costs exactly the same to reload for a Lee-Enfield as it does to load for anything else: accurate, low-recoil practise ammo at 9 to 12 cents a shot, full-house hunting loads at 60 cents.

Enjoy!
 
Your unknown stamp on the butt is a factory roundel cartouche basically repeating the receiver markings that it is a BSA made MLE Mk I*. BSA made approx. 192,000 Mk I*'s per the text books, yours unfortunately has had a hard life after being released from service and has been sporterized. Still a nice rifle but if you want to restore it finding the bits will take a while and deep pockets. Good Luck!!
 
smellie said:
You might be interested to know (and so will LIAMTHEDEVASTATOR ..... and welcome aboard!) that it costs exactly the same to reload for a Lee-Enfield as it does to load for anything else: accurate, low-recoil practise ammo at 9 to 12 cents a shot, full-house hunting loads at 60 cents.

Enjoy!
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Is that home reloaded ammo you're talking about? Someone told me factory made ammo for these is unreal expensive but 9 - 12 cents sounds pretty damn good to me! Thanks for the welcome and info, you've lit a fire under my seat!
 
That's home-rolled ammo, 180-grain cast bullets, old wheelweights for casting-metal, loaded with a gas-check on the bullet (raises the cost to 12 cents) and 13 grains of Red Dot shotgun powder.

You get low velocities and very manageable recoil.

Accuracy? Depends on the rifle. Ask Tinman204 or BUFFDOG. Buffdog uses this as his gopher-sniping load out to 300 yards.

With 70-year-old surplus ammo going for a buck a shot and commercial loads anywhere from a buck to a buck and a half, 12 cents IS pretty reasonable.

This load was developed by the eminent Canadian ballistician C. E. Harris and is applicable to most military rifles. It does not have enough oomph to operate a gas-operated semi-auto, but it is just peachy for bolt rifles.

Total cost for equipment will pay itself off in less than 500 rounds....... and you get 538 rounds to the pound of Red Dot.
 
HALF the cost of a cartridge is that empty casing that the rich guys like to pave the ranges with.

So you pick them up (thus doing the world a favour), take them home, rework them, reload them and shoot them off again (thus doing yourself a favour).

Resize, trim to specified length, load up, fire with an O-ring or a pony-tail tie around the base on your first firing. This centralizes the casing in your chamber, reduces headspace problems to ZERO and fireforms the brass to YOUR rifle and to no other. You now are on the track to making ammo which is more accurate than anything coming out of ANY factory.

Depending on the rifle, the load and how careful you are, you can get up to 30 or so loads out of a .303 casing..... which "everybody knows" is good for 2 reloads at most.
 
The barrel is only a little over 24.25 inches, so it has been shortened up. Since the rifling is almost non-existent anyhow, I guess I'll be putting another barrel on it and make a shooter out of it.
 
This 1904 Mk 1 rear sight sold for $175 !!! b: :runaway:

it looks a bit different than mine. What is it?

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moonshot5 said:
This 1904 Mk 1 rear sight sold for $175 !!! b: :runaway:

it looks a bit different than mine. What is it?

ht tp://www.ebay.ca/itm/Lee-Enfield-1904-MkI-SMLE-rear-sight-1-reserve-/301106345924?ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:CA:3160
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Yours is a Mk1* MLE (Magazine Lee Enfield)



The auction was for a Mk1 SMLE (Short Magazine Lee Enfield) rear sight.
 
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