Parker Hale .303 Identification please

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I bought a nice Parker Hale in .303 British this week for a really good price (<$400) but i'm having a hard time finding info to ID it properly. Here's some Photos of the markings.



















Thanks in advance.
 
That is a beautifully made sporter as all of the parker hale rifles were. I do not feel that you paid too much, just look at the work that went into that rifle! For contrast, I have an enfield from 1916 that does not look at all as nice as yours. How does she shoot?
 
I have the same rifle! I love it mine shoots great with open sights! I hope you enjoy yours their so light to carry all day as well:) But I paid a little less
 
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teenahlake said:
ShtLE No1mk3 1913 build, very nicely sportered. However by my estimation you paid about 100 too much
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x2. I prefer the no. 4 version, cause of the heavier barrel.;) Holes in the side, plugged with screws are for a scope mount, you'll have to figure out which kind.

Grizz
 
I have just purchased a very similar rifle. Mine has a micrometer type rear peep sight. It has the makers name on the barrel(Churchills Gunmakers London). It has a 5 round mag. I have yet to shoot it as it was an impulse bid at a firearm auction. Good/Bad news is paid $175.00 + tax and buyers premium.
 
Thanks a lot everyone. I was pretty sure it was a No. 1 but wanted to be sure. Any way to date when the conversion was done
 
Those conversions were done post WWII. The three holes in line on the side of the receiver are probably drilled and tapped for a Parker Hale side scope mount that has been out of production for some time. You may find one used, but most of them are probably still attached to working Lee Enfield sporters and unlikely to be sold separately. Keep a look out and you might get lucky.
 
In the "Olden Days" when the registry was still in business, I registered two sporterized Enfields. One was a T. Eaton and the other a Woodwards.
So yours could have had a history after PH did their work.
 
That is a beauty. Those PH rifles are grand old relics of the days past. I have a similar rifle, done up by Churchill Gunmakers. It was my first "big rifle", purchased at the local MacLeod's hardware for $65 in 1965.

The pic of the stampings on the wrist socket are pretty blurry, but do I see 1913? The old girl is only 100 years old, so good for a long, long time yet! :)
 
Nice gun! I have the PH Deluxe #4. Shot my first several deer and a ton of milsurp ammo with it. You have the nicer stock on yours. Enjoy, they're a lot of fun.
 
"...very nicely sportered..." That's what PH did. Very likely not to be any headspace issues either.
"...Any way to date when the conversion was done..." Nope.
 
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