Enfield mismatch

[stovepipe699]

klaus enuff, go for it. I would do my sporter, but it's drilled and tapped.
The worst part is it's my fault, I had it done for a deer rifle years back. What a mistake!

 

[klaus enuff]

That hurts stovepipe. If only you could go back in time

 

[RRCo.]

On a side note I heard somewhere that the aussies that packed SMLEs in Korea loved the no1 mk3 because they could use the sight wings as a quick and dirty 'battle sight' ie all you had to do to ensure torso hits at 50m was to quickly put the rifle up and put your target between the wings and over the front post and pull the trigger. Much faster than trying to line up the rear ramp and front sight or even a no4's peep sight. That coupled with the 10 round mag and the fastest, smoothest bolt action in the world must have made for an incredible volume of accurate fire.

Whatever you're used to works best, but a peep like the No4 has is faster if you're trained to use it; which the Aussies weren't then. You never line up anything but the front blade after you get cheek weld and a 'ghost ring' on the peep. And with a Lee Enfield you don't need to take your cheek off the butt to work the bolt.

The SMLE is just a little slicker feeling on the bolt, but the speed records were no better on the SMLE: 44 rounds a minute with a No4 IIRC.

 

[Hal O'Peridol]

Generally only Savage numbered the mag to the (No.4), rifles at the factory.
Geoff in Victoria

Geoff, I beg to differ. Savage did not serial number magazines at the factory. The vast majority of Savage No4s and Savage made No4 magazines I have bought OR looked at never had factory serial numbered mags, the few I have see were almost always FTRs.

The NIB Savage that I do have, the mag is serialed, but it definitely was done much later, and in a completely different font.

 

[Claven2]

The only factory I know for sure serialized mags when the guns were new was Ishapore, and even then, they did that only post-war.

An un-numbered magazine is totally normal and acceptable for most Enfields, as a rule.

 

[great white]

no 4 mk1 rifles are going up in price/look what they are asking for indian rifles they are rotten where ever they were stored it was quite sotty for price they are asking its too much /and of course the famous isapore screw