Savage-Lee enfield? In 303

Have a look at your bolt head and make sure the edges of the retaining lip are bevelled so you don't damage the edges of the bolt head release slot anymore than they are already.

Purty rifle. Boyd's stock maybe? Some would lament the re-park, but it probably needed it badly.

Looks like someone had an S&K scope mount on with the battle sight ground off like that.

Nice bore?
 
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Some people were not used to using a peep sight for hunting, so they filed or ground off the top of the sight on the No. 4 Lee Enfields to make an open sight out of it.

There were many aftermarket stock makers who produced stocks for these rifles. We have to remember that there was a flood of these on the market at the time, much like the plethora of SKS and Mosin Nagants today.

Bishop, Richards, Herters, and many others had a very large market to sell these stocks to. There was even a furniture manufacturer in Waterford, Ontario that produced stocks for surplus rifles.

Also, some of the English gun Trade converted these Surplus rifles to sporters. The Economy sporters utilized the military stocks, cut down and with buttstocks sanded a bit to a more sporter contour. However, they also produced the "Deluxe" models simply by putting better stocks on them, and selling them at much higher prices.

Back in the late 1950s, a SMLE was $9.95, and a Number 4 Lee Enfield cost $14.95. The Sporterized versions was about $5.00 more and the "Deluxe" versions about $10.00 more that the Military ones. Eatons, Sears, Macleods, and other stores sold them by mail order or across the counter.

With the shape your rifle is in, it is probably worth the $250 you paid for it.
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Thank's for the info buffdog, i'm learning more about these rifles as time goes by. Theirs a Long branch i saw this morning at a store. Almost as good of a shape as the rifle i own now. They are asking $325 for it, just might add this one also to my collection of firearms.
 
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With the shape your rifle is in, it is probably worth the $250 you paid for it.
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Personally i think i got a super deal, i recieved a little over 300 rds of 303 ammo with the rifle. I cheacked the prices of 303 ammo, it's about a buck a round these days. Over all i'm very happy with the purchase.
 
I think the OP scored a nice deal too, considering the amount of ammo he got with it.

Very nice looking gun. It's not a historical piece, so the re-parkerizing is a bonus, not a fault.
 
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If you got 300 rounds of ammo with it, then it is definitely a good deal. It does help to give all the information available when something wants to be found out. In this case, the ammunition was not mentioned until later, and does affect any opinion on how good the deal was.

You should be aware that some of that ammunition might be collectable, especially military issue ammunition. Breaking open a sealed box will definitely lower the values.

Also, most .303 military ammunition made was corrosive. Failure to fully clean the barrel will resulted in a rusted bore. If you fire military ammo, then standard cleaning procedure is to run two pints of boiling water through the bore. A special funnel was made for this purpose, but a regular METAL funnel flattened on one side, with a copper or rubber tube that fits inside the chamber works nicely. The boiling water run through the barrel heats up the barrel, opens the pores of the metal and flushes out the corrosive salts. A couple of patches then a lightly oiled patch will keep the bore from corroding.

If yolu are going to collect firearms, I would advise you to decide just what specific area or firearm type you want to collect. In my case, I like the Military firearms in gerneral, and the Lee-Enfield system, Ross rifles and Swedish m/96 Mauser FSR Target Rifles. That does not mean that I will not buy Winchesters, Colts, sporting rifles or other items, particularly if they are below valued, unique, or really cheap, but my direction of collecting is Military.
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