First Enfield need help to indent. PLZ

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jonathanlavigne

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Good day everyone,
I just bought this one. My first Enfield.
It will be use mainly for hunting, but I'm still very curious on what is she exactly and where she's from.
I tried to find info on internet but there is way to much info and I got lost.
So those are the pictures I can post.
hope it's enough info. If you need any thing else just ask.
and by the way I paid 80$ good deal or not ?

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for all the pictures I took go to:
http://s523.beta.photobucket.com/user/tooks0/library/first enfield

Thank you very much
 
It is a Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle, Number 1 Mark III*, which was built in 1944: the very end of production.

It is poorly marked because it is a "Dispersal" rifle: parts made all over the map of the British Isles and brought together for assembly by BSA. This was a war-time expedient which was brought on by the repeated bombing of the BSA plant, Parer-Hale and Birmingham in general. The theory was that if the manufacture of parts was dispersed, there would be no nice, fat target to put out of commission. It worked.

Your rifle has been made into a sporter, but it appears to be restorable. That ramp n the front sight is not military, but it also can come off. The Butt is in original condition, too, so that is one less part to look for.

I'll try to get back on this one later. I have just received yet another batch of Microsoft "updates" which have, once again, completely screwed my computer.

For eighty bucks? You stole it!

BEST all-round combat bolt rifle ever made, bar none.
 
Sure it's a good deal. They were selling for $80. twenty or thirty years ago, so when you factor in depreciation, they're getting cheaper all the time.

If the barrel is VG or better, you got a great deal. That beech wood seems to have gone on in the late 40s and 50s when the British were overhauling hundreds of thousands of these rifles that had seen hard service in WWII (and WWI in many cases). I see the rifle went through a Factory Thorough Repair. That meant a complete inspection with gauges and the replacement of any parts that were not up to specs, including the bolt and the barrel if necessary.

Now that's getting to be quite a while ago, but some of these rifles have spent most of that time in the corner of a closet or in somebody's rafters, so you just never know what you're getting until you check it over.

I think you made a great choice for a first rifle. Get to know it well and it will become the standard you measure your future rifles against. That's history in your hands.
 
Should have spotted that!

The Magazine was NOT meant to come out f these rifles. Magazines were handmade and individually fitted to a rifle. You loaded the rifle through the TOP of the action, using CHARGERS which held 5 rounds. It is actually much FASTER to reload the rifle with the Chargers than it is to change magazines..... which is why spare Magazines were NOT issued once the Bridge Charger Guide had been invented (1901).

Tiny bit of oil in the boltway and you have the fastest-cycling bolt rifle of all time. Your rifle will get off 10 rounds faster than ANY bolt rifle ever made, and that INCLUDES a Ross straight-pull! You can get off 10 rounds with the SMLE in the time you can get off 5 with a Mauser and be halfway reloaded.

For rough usage, rifles just don't come any better at all.
 
thanks to all of you, I'm really happy of your answers.

Just by the way. I do have the mag. You just don't see it on the pic.
I was thinking of a synthetic stock to go hunt. first I would like to save the semi original stock i have and it will be more comfortable.
any suggestions with that too?
 
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