Number of Lee-Enfields in Canada?
- Thread starter rdelliott
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burnt_servo
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Only our friends at the CFC know, well maybe to the nearest 10,000 or so.Just for fun you should try an Access to Information Request with them and see what happens.
i wonder if it might fly , if a person applied for research funding to the gov , and wrote a paper that detailed how the lee-enfield rifle has transfromed it's use within canada , and transformed canada , then applied for the freedom of information act for numbers as to how many enfields where left within canada ...............
make it sound good on paper and it might fly
Registered Lee Enfields
Yes. With the original $25 registration fee, I could just see lots of people lining up to plunk down $25 to register a Lee Enfield that they bought for $14.95 from Eatons or Sears.
Speaking of which, I was at a Gun Shop when three people came in. This was an estate where an older lady had passed away, and when they opened up the closet, way back at the back was a Parker Hale sporterized Lee Enfield, unfired, complete with box, hang tags, and original string around the box. They wanted to sell it or dispose of it.
She had apparently ordered some BLINDS for her windows from Sears, almost 40 years ago, and someone at Sears had sent her the Parker Hale Lee Enfield instead. She was afraid to send it back, and it sat in her closet for almost 4 decades, until she passed away.
Gun control at it's finest.
Yes. With the original $25 registration fee, I could just see lots of people lining up to plunk down $25 to register a Lee Enfield that they bought for $14.95 from Eatons or Sears.
Speaking of which, I was at a Gun Shop when three people came in. This was an estate where an older lady had passed away, and when they opened up the closet, way back at the back was a Parker Hale sporterized Lee Enfield, unfired, complete with box, hang tags, and original string around the box. They wanted to sell it or dispose of it.
She had apparently ordered some BLINDS for her windows from Sears, almost 40 years ago, and someone at Sears had sent her the Parker Hale Lee Enfield instead. She was afraid to send it back, and it sat in her closet for almost 4 decades, until she passed away.
Gun control at it's finest.
Cooeys
COOEY, a relatively minor firearms manufacturer by a lot of comparisons, made over 6 million firearms alone. While some of these would have gone out of the country, the majority of this production would have stayed in Canada, for Canadian owners.
With the widespread distribution by Gun Shops, Eatons, Sears, and various Hardware chains, the Cooey single shot rifle was a Canadian Institution.
Long Branch made almost a million Lee Enfield rifles, and I have a Savage Lee Enfield bolt in the 90C ###X range. Not all of these rifles stayed in Canada, but a good percentage of them did. And, they were sold as surplus, along with Lee Enfields from other manufacturers. When I grew up in the 50s, $9.95 would get you your choice from a long wall rack in larger stores, or simply a large barrel in smaller ones.
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Or better yet..How many Cooey single shots AND Lee-Enfields in Canada?
COOEY, a relatively minor firearms manufacturer by a lot of comparisons, made over 6 million firearms alone. While some of these would have gone out of the country, the majority of this production would have stayed in Canada, for Canadian owners.
With the widespread distribution by Gun Shops, Eatons, Sears, and various Hardware chains, the Cooey single shot rifle was a Canadian Institution.
Long Branch made almost a million Lee Enfield rifles, and I have a Savage Lee Enfield bolt in the 90C ###X range. Not all of these rifles stayed in Canada, but a good percentage of them did. And, they were sold as surplus, along with Lee Enfields from other manufacturers. When I grew up in the 50s, $9.95 would get you your choice from a long wall rack in larger stores, or simply a large barrel in smaller ones.
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I honestly think there are 200,000-300,000 in Canada alone. For every one registered I bet there are three unregistered. How many know guys who said,"I didn't bother to register the old .303, it's only worth $75." I know quite a few and how many keep one at the camp stuffed under a matress or overhead in a hiding place?
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When I was in Unversity they called this Voodoo math there are some fairly sweeping assumptions made here.
I would suggest that there are a lot more then 24000 registered in Canada.
there were a lot imported back into Canada and sold off after the war as sporting rifles.
Longbranch and Savage together produced over 2 million enfields and although most of those went overseas some stayed here for training and in depos. Also when the troops came back they did bring their rifles back for demobilization so they all went into storage.
My gut fealing is that there are around a million enfields in Canada and perhaps 25% are registered.
Only our friends at the CFC know, well maybe to the nearest 10,000 or so.
If you have the FRT's for the rifles in question, you can ask and they will tell you how to find out.
