RCAF Marked enfield pistol info required

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Hey All just wondering on what your views are on what this thing is worth I might be selling it and i am also wondering if i paid more than it was worth (though i didn't have a problem when i bought it :D)
Its 38 S+W
the firing pin and hammer are not one piece is this normal? You can see the pin mark in the second pic that holds the pin in
the serial is E48XX (i am not giving the last 2 numbers) and it matches throughout.


If you ole warhorses can give me info thanks and for the others .....enjoy


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Nice!

This is from an excellent article written by Grant Rombough

In 1932, the British Army adopted a lighter top-break revolver - the Enfield No.2 Mk I - chambered for the new .380/200 service cartridge (a military loading of the .38 Smith & Wesson employing a somewhat heavier 200 grain bullet). During the 1930's, the fledgling RCAF obtained 585 of these British pistols
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http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/weapons/pistols.htm

I collect RCAF arms - when you decide on a price, I might be interested ;)
 
Hijack

Nice gun brings something else to mind

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Just had to hijack this to display another RCAF Arrow. Not a gun by itself but definitely a weapons platform. It's off the lower frame of the canopy on a CF86 Sabre. It's sitting in my garage so had to take a picture of it.......the fighter is not in my garage lol....just this piece of frame.

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It was only the pre-war purchases which totaled 585 ..... wartime purchases drove the total quantity of No. 2 Enfield revolvers acquired by Canada to approximately 3,500 .....
 
.......thanks for keeping us in suspense Grant lol I am speculating here and also have a bias :D it think it could be on of the 585 because it was made in 1937 ......i know its a grasp but its a possibility
 
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Sorry .... I posted that message, but forgot to subscribe to the thread ..... :redface:

I'm no expert on gun values (or much else, for that matter) but can say that "asking prices" for .380 No. 2 Enfield revolvers in Canada seem to range from a low of $150 or so to $400 or so, depending on various factors of course - originality, condition, supply & demand and so on. I think that the RCAF provenance does add somewhat to the desirability of the piece (at least to some potential buyers.)

FWIW, I note that the foresight blade on this revolver has been filed down to lower it ...... so despite its generally nice condition it is no longer "as issued" ...... (Such sight modifications were often done to Enfield revolvers after they were in private hands to make them shoot to point of aim with commercially-available .38S&W ammunition. The British .380 service revolver cartridge was a military version of the .38S&W, but had a heavier bullet ....)

My references do not specify how many of the approximately 3,500 No, 2 Enfield revolvers were issued to the RCAF, but I suspect that it was the majority of them since the Air Force was the only component of our forces to have adopted that model. The standard-issue handgun chosen for the Army in 1939 was the Smith & Wesson "Military & Police" revolver, chambered in .38S&W. Well over 100,000 S&W revolvers were acquired before our home-built Inglis High Power pistols began to be issued in very late 1944
 
Aaaagh! :mad: There's that "tanker model" moniker raising its ugly head again!!! :puke: ;)
The "bobbed hammer, double-action only" configuration became standard for No. 2 Enfield revolver beginning in 1939 -i.e. the Mark I* and Mk I** versions - and was not used only on revolvers intended for issue to armoured corps personnel .....

what about all the BOB tailed enfields i see are any of those canadian
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According to Clive Law's "Canadian Military Handguns, 1855-1985", the Mark I* model (i.e. "bob tailed") was the most common version in Canadian service ....
 
^^^^^^ it was reference to your "tanker" post and ment in fun

I always thought that until reading your post

now another question are the shaved hammer enfields able to shoot double action with just a hammer change?

BTW i would never do it just curious
 
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