please identify and price my rifle 303 Enfield?

Hi. Looks like a sporterized Lee-Enfield Mk I or a Mk I*. Might be a sporterized Lee-Enfield Cavalry Carbine Mk I with the wrong mag.
How long is the barrel? What is stamped under the bolt handle?
Isn't worth more than you paid for it.
Go here and look in Part 3. http://www.enfieldrifles.ca/main.htm
 
What's the barrel length? It measures breech-face to muzzle; use a ceaning rod.

What is stamped on the butt socket, right where the bolt-handle hides the writing when the bolt is closed? Anything stamped on the OTHER side of the same part?

What is the diameter of the barrel at the muzzle?

These all are important to getting an exact identificaton. There were two DOZEN models of the Lee rifle produced in significant numbers, plus innumerable CONVERSIONS from one model to another. I have seen more than two hundred DIFFERENT rifles, all at the same time. (Granted, that was at the factory.) There are MANY variants out there, hiding in the woodwork. Knowing exactly WHICH variant you have can make a BIG difference.

Close-up photos also would be a big help.

This one has a number of very early features evident. It could have gone through half a dozen conversions, but I have a feeling that it hasn't.

Photos and MARKINGS will tell the tale.
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Sporter= $125-$150. of course as smellie stated, if the barrel is worn to the point where you would have to make custom projectiles it would have to be a very collectable model to be worth, well......anything really!?.......IMHO a gun is just a ball bat w/ a pipe thru it if you can't shoot it!:p
 
... Plus it looks like it has the "Windage Adjustable" rear sight, and at least part of the "Volley Sight" remaining. .... As posted by others, the date should be stamped on the Receiver /Butt socket, and perhaps a lot more information as well. ..... David K
 
Nice..looks like an early No.1(pre1915?) with the mag cutoff plate still intact. Good on it having the front volley sight...that's the hard one to find the missing rear pieces are easier in comparison.
 
Check the photos very carefully.

The RIFLE has no safety.

The BOLT has the early wing-safety.

DEFINITELY 1895 - 1902 manufacture.

Possibly CONVERTED in 1910 - 1914.

The CLLE was never MANUFACTURED; they were ALL Conversions.

This is why we need more photos, more data.
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