An interesting mismatched but still in grease No4 Mk1

[HasegawaYamato]

Hi lads,
I got a lee enfield no4 recently, and as the title said, it is mismatched but still in old grease.
Hope the pics are working.
The poorly stamped M47 1943 means its a BSA rifle, the S/N is pencil etched instead of stamped, seems to be normal for a mid-late war no4? Im not so good at indentifying enfield so hopefully some expert can answer that
No4 Mk1 was atched on the side of the receiver, and it has a flip style rear sight. But in my knowledge, the flip style rear sight is for Mk1 star isnt it?
The handguard was stamped SL N 74, which I recognize it was a subcontractor in Britian at that time. The nose cap has a TM stamp, Im not sure on this one.
But, the bolt was stamped 44L, which means a long branch bolt.
Bolt head size 2, and the mag is unnumbered.

So a BSA rifle with a Canadian bolt, if there is no old grease I would say its just a regular mismatched No4, but with the grease, Im not so sure anymore.
My best guess is a BSA rifle used, repaired and maintained by Canadian army, then put into storage untill now.

 

[Pblatzz]

Looks like a mismatched used Lee Enfield BSA 1943 rifle with storage grease. Grease is just a preservative, Who knows when or by who put it on.

 

[tiriaq]

Or from where it was sold as surplus.

 

[HasegawaYamato]

Looks like a mismatched used Lee Enfield BSA 1943 rifle with storage grease. Grease is just a preservative, Who knows when or by who put it on.

You are absolutely right. I will try to dig some info, if its just a regular mismatch that means I can just clean out the old cosmoline and start shooting it

 

[skwerl]

Wonder when electric pen etching started ?
I don't think it was in the '1940's .

 

[gewehr76]

Let's clean it up and go shooting.

 

[enefgee]

Don't see any C Broad arrows, so CF service is out. Could be a post war FTR - what's under the handguard?

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

Wonder when electric pen etching started ?
I don't think it was in the '1940's .

The FTR markings include electropencil markings. That was shortly after WW2.

 

[Eaglelord17]

The bolt was likely mismatched when the rifle was sold off as surplus. Many dealers received the bolts seperate from the rifles and the less careful would just slap any bolt into a rifle. Remember back in the day they used to have barrels of rifles you just picked the best one from, some dealers likely didn't care too much about the numbers side of it.

Wonder when electric pen etching started ?
I don't think it was in the '1940's .

The technology was there by at least the end of the 40s. Soviet refurbs have it, British refurbs have it, Swedish refurbs have it, etc.

 

[gerard488]

Wonder when electric pen etching started ?
I don't think it was in the '1940's .

I do believe the no5's were electro pencil marked

 

[can14]

I have a no4 Enfield that the receiver must have had something happen to it in the blue/ black finishing.
It came out really rough , so someone sent it back down the line to get the markings redone.
All of the rest of the parts are mint to new blue/black finish. Numbers all match.
It was one of the guns that came from Greece.