Help identify Lee Enfield

[300s]

Can anyone help explain my Enfield? The barrel and receiver have different numbers. I was wondering what the barrel is from.
Thanks
Pics are on here (I hope. not very good with computer stuff)
http://s1155.photobucket.com/albums/p549/RyanFar/

 

[mwjones]

The only thing i can identify is that it's a no 1 in a sporter stock. It was british issue of some sort from the broad arrow mark. Other than that, I have no idea. Wierd nosecap :S

someone will be along shortly to help.

 

[louthepou]

You have a rather nice commercial sporter, made by the Churchill company, and it was made using a No1Mk3* SMLE. It's drilled and tapped, from the looks of it to accept (maybe) a Weaver TO-1 scope mount. Nice gun!

Lou

 

[smellie]

Churchill made some of the better-done and higher-priced conversions of the Lee-Enfield.

If a rifle has "Churchill" on it, it is definitely NOT a Bubba job; it has become a Sporting Rifle.... with a military service career in its past....... just like a lot of US.

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[Grizzly Adams]

The only thing i can identify is that it's a no 1 in a sporter stock. It was british issue of some sort from the broad arrow mark. Other than that, I have no idea. Wierd nosecap :S

someone will be along shortly to help.

Not really. Deluxe conversion with a completely new stock. Nice hunting rifle, but that's all.

Grizz

 

[Gibbs505]

Converted #1 Mk3* originally built in 1917 by Birmingham Small Arms Co.

 

[bdft]

 

[tiriaq]

Barrel, bolt and receiver are from three different rifles, no doubt happened when the rifle was sported, although the rifle may have been rebarrelled while the rifle was still in service.

Churchill is one of the great names in British gunmaking.
Like a number of other firms, it fell on hard times following WW2. In 1958, the company name was acquired by Sam Cummings, surplus arms magnate extraordinaire. Cummings acquired the names of other old time British gunmaking houses at this time.
The sporterizing program dates from this period. Sam Cummings had LOTS of obsolete military rifles to market. The rifle is sported in much the same manner as the Parker Hale and other conversions. The Churchill name on the rifle is the only thing the rifle has in common with the classic shotguns that the original Churchill company made.
The current Churchill firm dates to 1994, and makes quality shotguns.

 

[300s]

Thanks for all the fast info
It has been sitting in the basement for about 15 years. Just took the old Norinco
3x9x32 off to see how it does with open sights at longer ranges.
Thanks a lot