Is this a Lee Metford or Long Lee Enfield???

Pretty much impossible to tell without seeing the markings, but I'm fairly certain it'd be a Lee-Enfield.
 
They are NOT Lee Metford MkI's, but could be either MkII's or Lee Enfields. Without magnification of the original prints, I would be hesitant to commit either way.
 
When I was living in Newfoundland a number of years ago, I managed to score a rifle which supposedly was used aboard HMS Briton (built as HMS Calypso). Her wreck lay about 400 yards from my house, up to Job's Cove< Embree, NDB.

Anyway, it is a commercial Lee-Metford Mark II which appears to have done considerable military service. Man, is that bore, rough!
 
Sure it is a Metford ?? No cutout in the wood under the cutout and no finger grove in the stock. Does it have a single row mag or double row. That is the giveaway...
 
According to "The Lee Enfield", Canada had 164 MLM Rifles, 53 MLM Carbines and 30,276 MLE Rifles along with 4,276 MLE Carbines. So chances are pretty good that they were Magazine Lee Enfield Rifles.

This was in 1904
 
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The cocking pieces on these arms seem small lacking the safety catch so they could be LM MkIIs but it is hard to tell.
Newfoundland was an independant Dominion until 1949 separate from Canada.
 
green said:
The cocking pieces on these arms seem small lacking the safety catch so they could be LM MkIIs but it is hard to tell.
Newfoundland was an independant Dominion until 1949 separate from Canada.
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As these where Navy boys, I went with Canada. Newfoundland had 132 MLE rifles in 1904!
 
The rifle I got is a COMMERCIAL Mark II Lee-Metford rifle. Built by BSA, marked LEE-SPEED PATENTS.

It has Metford rifling. I do know the difference.

The MLM rifle Mk II was identical to the MLE rifle Mk I except for the rifling. The LE used Enfield rifling.

Fun to shoot, by the way, but hard to hit anything with!
 
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