antique .303 martini metford

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I picked up a martini metford in very good shape. on the right side of the metal it says LSA co 1881 on the left side it says Enfield 1894 it's covered with very clear stamps. It's mechanically it's very solid. Can someone tell me a little more about the what year it was made & maybe the value ?
 
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I recently came across a Martini Metford in my shop and I was lucky enough to know a gent that educated me on pretty much everything there is to know about the history of this particular model of Martini. I'll include some gun ####, but I take the liberty of censoring some information.

This is a Martini Metford, made in 1894 as it is. It was built like this, with this barrel length so serve as a rifle for the cannon crews that had little room for the normally long service rifles.













Does anyone have any questions? I've got too much time on my hands anyhow.
 
It can be an antique btu not an "antique".

It's old and cool, thus an antique.

But it doesn't meet the FA criterion to be an antique, so it's not.

Schzoprhenic rifle!
 
It may not be an antique but it surely is a desireable rifle for a collector. What are the markings on the stock? I know that I have a Canadian marked MM rifle which shoots like a hot damn. Great Canadian history. As long as it hasn't been butchered somehow it is worth more as a collector than a hunting rifle. Dave
 
Really odd law. South of the border it would be an antique, as the date it was made and NOT the date it was converted, would apply. Even in this case, it predates Jan 1 1899 so its STILL an antique regardless of calibre.
 
John Sukey said:
Really odd law. South of the border it would be an antique, as the date it was made and NOT the date it was converted, would apply. Even in this case, it predates Jan 1 1899 so its STILL an antique regardless of calibre.
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In most cases CDN and US antique law is similar, but up here they have a couple of ammo related things too. A repeater is not an antique regardless of age, and anything that takes a modern .22 rimfire is also not an antique regardless of age, and if it is a singleshot centrefire, it must be bigger than a certain bore, 8.3mm or so (I can't remember exactly). So an original .45-577 Martini is antique, but a Martini-Metford or Enfield, or a conversion, is a firearm as far as the law is concerned, and so are the .22 cadet and target models.
 
The Martini-Metford has a Metford rifled barrel. Shallow rifling to cope with BP fouling from the brand new BP 303 cartridge. Built on a Martini action with a Metford barrel replacing the Henry rifled barrel. The Martini-Enfield has Enfield rifling the same as the Lee-Enfield. On a side notee, I've owned two Martini-Enfields that the CFC, in their infinite wisdon, insisted were Martini-Metfords. I wish :)
 
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