Need help with a little Project/ Lee Enfield No4 mk1

QM 86 said:
Any Tankers or similar modified Enfields used during the wars or seen combat?
In all my years havn't read about them.
However one old DCRA man who is now about 90 told me he owned one. The rifle was part of a batch modified in late WWII for British Royal Marines for a specific raid. Several years ago I had a brief look at it but declined to buy it, because I didn't know if it was original or not. Another member on this site also handled it too.
I would not doubt that many individual modified Enfields owned by hunters etc, were grabbed in a pinch somewhere during the wars. But several as part of an army unit, I don't know.
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I've heard rumours of the Royal Marine rifles. There never has been any proof that they are legit. I suspect that they are not legit but part of someone making up a small batch and marketing them.

Like the airborne stock on the SKS...
 
7ECA said:
Forends are becoming rather difficult to find, and that looks like a nice example. Save the wood for a rifle that you can easily restore - one with an uncut barrel.
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Totally 100% agree as well.

BTW, glad Beater spoke up in this thread...he makes excellent Enfield Tankers. You won't see better. Just get him to do it (with different wood and use that forend for an uncut barrel)
 
woodchopper said:
I've heard rumours of the Royal Marine rifles. There never has been any proof that they are legit. I suspect that they are not legit but part of someone making up a small batch and marketing them.

Like the airborne stock on the SKS...
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The Royal Marine Commando rifles were phonies cooked up commercially to increase the prices they could get for them...I have the ad from the Sears Catalogue or whatever it was, if I look.
 
A bit of a necro post, but I saw this video series the other day and though of this thread


The finished product looks amazing.
 
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