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I had an interesting day on Saturday. I was asked to come along with a friend to take a look at an estate collection that was being sold. My friend is a gunsmith and leans on me for my very narrow and limited knowledge of milsurps.
Sadly, the bulk of the collection up for sale wasn't worth what the asking price was. A lot of badly sported stuff, cut down, drilled, milled etc. He had said that he had an Enfield 1931 #4 ?????. Trials rifle he might mean? It turned out to be in fact an early trials #4 receiver that had been used to make up a #4. I might have been interested but the receiver had been milled in one spot to accept a civilian scope mount. It had a mixed bag of parts and non matching. I might have taken it just because but the price was way too high.
So, I bought the aiming stand it was sitting in. A CDN Mk3. Paid $200 for it and am glad to have it. The photo isn't of mine but same thing in great shape. It has a weld on one of the arms and I believe it was modified to fit the FN C1.
 
5THBATT said:
Where was the receiver milled on the trials No4?
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Left side towards the breech end. The milled section looked as though it would fit the military issue front pad and some marks where the rear pad would fit. but I saw the mount and it wasn't like any military issued I have seen. And I don't believe they would have gone to the trouble to mill out the receiver on a put together rifle for any other good reason. The trials receivers were used as they had a shorteage of newer parts and I believe this one had an "A" suffix. It's a puzzle to me
 
I saw a '31 troop trials rifle that had been converted into a single shot .222 sporting rifle. Altered receiver, restocked, the whole 9 yards.
Some 31s were converted to "T"s, but you would have spotted that.
 
I didn't think they had converted any of the trials to "Ts". Hmmmm. Did I pass something up here. There was no T mark but then I believe that not all were stamped as such.
 
Points i was thinking of the milled section at the rear behind the safety which would have indicated it might be a No1 MkVI but not by the sounds. Yes , they did indeed convert some of the trials No4s to snipers but none of the MkVIs & when either a trials No4 or a trials was converted to a T or a No1 MkVI was reworked into a No4 the A prefix was changed to a A suffix to indicate the rifle has some parts that are not interchangable with standard No4 parts without some hand fitting
 
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Points i was thinking of the milled section at the rear behind the safety which would have indicated it might be a No1 MkVI but not by the sounds. Yes , they did indeed convert some of the trials No4s to snipers but none of the MkVIs & when either a trials No4 or a trials was converted to a T or a No1 MkVI was reworked into a No4 the A prefix was changed to a A suffix to indicate the rifle has some parts that are not interchangable with standard No4 parts without some hand fitting
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And by the way. It was dated 1931. These trials are a bit beyond what I have delved into. I need to read up a bit more tonight.
 
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And by the way. It was dated 1931. These trials are a bit beyond what I have delved into. I need to read up a bit more tonight.
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My No1 MkVI is dated 1930 but i dont know if they were made into 1931, trials No4s were 1931 on iirc
A link to a Trials No4 survey http://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=50282
My MkVI markings
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