Very interesting Canadian WWII training rifle!

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My friend from work told me he had a Lee-Enfield .22 a few days ago after him and I got talking and I told him I collectedNo.2 Lee-Enfields and other Commonwealth rifles. Was kind of shocked when he actually brought it to work today. Ha ha! Anyway it has a few things I have never seen or heard of before.

Its a DP'd 1916 Enfield built No1 MkIII, converted to III*, then converted into this .22 trainer. According to Skennerton, this one is a .22 RF Pattern 1914 Short Rifle No. 2, with somewhere upwards of around 1800 built.

This rifle has C^ markings on the knox, rear sight base, and on the right hand side of the butt. It also wears a rear sight off of a Ross! Its on a very interesting looking sight base.

What are you experts' thoughts on this little beast? I would give my eye teeth to buy this from him. I'll see what I can do but I don't think he'll move on it. Its been in his family for 45 years.

















Days like today make me love this hobby. Sorry for the crappy iphone pics but I didn't think he was going to bring it to work so didn't bring my camera.
 
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Nice - an A.G. Parker conversion. While the rear sight looks similar to the Ross Mark III I think it is actually a Parker sight. The windage scale is interesting - and I could be wrong on the sight maker. It is said that Parker designed the Ross Mark III sight. However, it may be a Canadian Ross sight conversion - look on the side of the sight for HWC in a circle or other markings.

The stock disk has letters and numbers on it, looks like "ARTC - 42 5". Perhaps a better picture if you can.
 
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Markings are all okay; that's what it is. Even the DP has been cancelled properly.

The Ross rear sight on the special mount was a Canadian adaptation; I don't think anyone else used them.

A very scarce and tasty treat which deserves to be played with very seriously.
 
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