Help identifying this Lee Enfield?

So I found out the .303 ammo is 50 years old, but was stored in a cool dry place. What do you guys think? Shoot them? lol
 
tetra said:
So I found out the .303 ammo is 50 years old, but was stored in a cool dry place. What do you guys think? Shoot them? lol
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Oh heck yah 50 year old ammunition in not a problem, except for corrosive properties in some. Corrosive ammunition just requires a good thorough cleaning after a range trip, bolt actions have less to worry about than semi autos way more nooks and crannies for the corrosive material to make a home in. That and people who do not know how to clean thier firearms.

I like old ammo kinda neat to fire stuff older than I am!

Regards,

Izzit
 
red_bailey said:
It is actually the Canadian legislators who mis-understand. The Lee-Enfield IS a named exemption in the Cartridge Magazine Control Regulations (SOR 98-462 Part 4 S.3 Par.(2)(a)(ii)).

However, as you said there is no regulated limit for manual action long-arms, and Section 3 above deals with semi-automatic and fully automatic fire-arms, so the exemption has no business being there.
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and here we go again.

its not the lee enfield that is exempted its lee enfield magazines that are exempted because there were a few semi auto conversions done to these rifles by the Brits, South Africans, and New Zelanders, so in theory every enfield mag would be considered to be designed to to work in a semi auto firearm making all the enfield magazines prohibited devices based on our poorly writen gunlaws. so rather then rewrite the laws they just made an exemption
 
woodchopper said:
and here we go again.

its not the lee enfield that is exempted its lee enfield magazines that are exempted because there were a few semi auto conversions done to these rifles by the Brits, South Africans, and New Zelanders, so in theory every enfield mag would be considered to be designed to to work in a semi auto firearm making all the enfield magazines prohibited devices based on our poorly writen gunlaws. so rather then rewrite the laws they just made an exemption
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Yep, the Charlton Automatic Rifle was one of them. It was made in New Zealand and Australia to supplement the shortage of Bren guns. It used either a 10 round Lee-Enfield magazine, or a modified Bren gun magazine.
 
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and here we go again.

there were a few semi auto conversions done to these rifles
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As I've already stated:

The fact that there are a few examples of the obsolete proto-type Charlton automatic conversion in museums, used sparingly by New Zealand in the War and not all fitting L-E magazines in the first place, should have nothing to do with what the mag.s were originally designed for.

The magazine is a Lee-Enfield No.4 (or No.1) bolt-action rifle mag. Making modifications to the rifle does not change this. We have MANY examples of pistol mag.s or other rifle mag.s being switched to other fire-arms either modified or not, and the restriction is based on the magazine. This is all covered in RCMP Bulletin 72.

Apparently Charlton conversions used a base action of LM, MLE, or SMLE rifles (i.e., obsolete at the time). Since these are not the same as No.4 magazines, it could not under any interpretation apply to that rifle. Also, most were further modified to use BREN magazines instead.

Poorly-written, I'll give you that. It still doesn't belong there.
 
made by british small arms England--they produced a lot less .303 then anybody else--mag capacity is legal for hunting cause it was factory produced--good canadate for rebuild project
 
Very clean looking example in original finish with very little wear. If the bore is still VG or better you have a rifle worthy of restoration.
 
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