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mr.e moose

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In the EE a 1896 Lee Enfield saddle ring carbine for the ridiculously low price of $1200.00.Not sportered should I buy it or hold out for the short magazine Winchester>
 
mr.e moose said:
In the EE a 1896 Lee Enfield saddle ring carbine for the ridiculously low price of $1200.00.Not sportered should I buy it or hold out for the short magazine Winchester>
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Unfortunate that it had a visit from Bubba. A original one is worth alot of money but not this one. TOO many of these were sporterized countless years ago.
 
Yeah ,I know I'm just being a sarcastice old SOB tonight.If only it still had it's full wood,leather sight protector and saddle slings.Now that's what dreams are made of.
 
cantom said:
Can someone tell us what that rifle is actually worth? I have the seller on the line and he didn't know.
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Cantom, thanks for straightening me out on this rifle. I didn't know that it's been chopped, I thought that it was a shorter barrel version meant for saddle holsters (ok, I admit I'm a noob :redface:)

I appreciate this forum. Too bad that I have to wait 160 hours before I can edit my post! I would knock nine hundred off of the price.....

Cheers
 
U-47 said:
Cantom, thanks for straightening me out on this rifle. I didn't know that it's been chopped, I thought that it was a shorter barrel version meant for saddle holsters (ok, I admit I'm a noob :redface:)

I appreciate this forum. Too bad that I have to wait 160 hours before I can edit my post! I would knock nine hundred off of the price.....

Cheers
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You can edit it at any time. It's only bumping it you have to wait for.
 
Indeed U-47, unfortunately finding the parts to restore this LEC is in the "impossible" neighborhood. Now, with a nice Monte-Carlo butt stock or a Lee Speed butt stock, and a clean, matching forend, it would be a neat sporter. But as is, it's pretty much worth the same as any old sporter Lee Enfield, maybe a bit more.
 
It might be worth up to the $300 range depending if someone like Bob Fortier wanted to take on a project and restore it.As it sits I would say maybe in the $225 to $250 range.
 
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