What the heck is this hybrid?

[points]

This photo was in todays Vancouver Sun. An Iraqi Turkman Shiite fighter
Looks like a Fal flash hider, something stuck under the barrel (to look like a launcher??) and the lower end looks like a Lee Enfield #1. The barrel appears a bit too heavy for a #1. ??? Oh, and the casings don't appear to be 303 but image is not that good.

 

[desporterizer]

Looks like a no4 in 7.62 with a fal flash hider. Funny, looks like a 303 mag.

 

[XRCD011]

AND a AK for a back up piece, like buddies ammo belt also.

 

[fenceline]

Looks like a no4 in 7.62 with a fal flash hider. Funny, looks like a 303 mag.

Seen worse.

 

[statixstorm]

The *thing* under the barrel isn't a launcher, look at the shadow on the wall, it's a bi-pod. The wood stock has been chopped down.

 

[fenceline]

This photo was in todays Vancouver Sun. An Iraqi Turkman Shiite fighter
Looks like a Fal flash hider, something stuck under the barrel (to look like a launcher??) and the lower end looks like a Lee Enfield #1. The barrel appears a bit too heavy for a #1. ??? Oh, and the casings don't appear to be 303 but image is not that good.

That "launcher" is a folding bipod.

 

[gaff]

No 4 Lee Enfield with an m60 flash hider and sporting rifle bipod.

 

[points]

I thought the mag looked like a #1 but the barrel at least a #4.

 

[fraserdw]

The flashhider is from a Russian PKM LMG (note how it bulges out in toward the middle, FN is smooth), that's a bipod wired on and the action is definitely LE. I am willing to bet the whole barrel is from a Russian MG with a LE front sight to keep the sight plane level. Likely a Bazaar gun (as in local market made), there are tons of odd combinations or LE and Turk Mausers with assorted modern rifle parts added to them in the Middle East. I once saw a short barrelled Mauser in 303 with a LE mag, AK flash hider and a brazed on bayonet holder. I am willing to bet he is some kind of designated marksmen.

 

[mkrnel]

looks like it may be a SVD-K barrel fitted to a Lee Enfield and probably chambered in 7.62x54mm.

the FN FAL flash hider does not have the front sight mounted on it.

 

[HeadDamage]

Enfields can be converted to 7.62x54mm, guys in the US used to do it when they couldn't get cheap 303.

 

[milsurpo]

Just noticed the front sight looks a bit like the one on my Charger Loading Lee Enfield, which also has a heavier barrel than the No. 1. A great many MLE's were converted prior to WW1 and were actually used on the front lines, at least initially. So, this guy must be their "sniper" with this old relic for long range work?

milsurpo

 

[5440fight]

It's probably the testing grounds for the new Canadian Rangers prototype rifle. They needed to make it more "snipery" after the Prime Minister's groups were poor with the current offerings.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Strange things come about in the home work shops of the Middle East. Not necessarily his casings on the ground, the pouch ones look like they could be. 303.

Grizz