What's with all the Enfield's?

Really? I'll have to take a look. I have a vigorously sporterized version that I remember oiling up when I was 11 that is now mine though I haven't picked it up yet.
 
There does seem to be a bit more than usual, available on the EE and every where else. I am in the market for one, but I am having a hard time
getting some ammo together at a reasonable price. I'm going to have to reload:(
 
The lay offs from the oil patch are starting to have a trickle down effect. The folks that picked up the P17s, P14s, No4s and even some Ross Rifles/Garands/1903 Springfields because of the cool factor are needing money for a plethora of reasons. I have been approached several times in the last six months by people looking to move such items and it is going to get worse. When the cool toys are mostly sold the sporters will be next along with accessories.

I have seen this before with the oil field bust and boom cycles. I suspect this will last longer than the last one. With the new tech out there having spread across the world we are awash in oil and will be for a long time to come. Especially if China stops growing its economy. They are trying to transition into a consumer nation as well as a builder/exporter.

The oil patch may not rebound quickly but it won't completely die either. Same goes for the NGL and NG.

As far as the milsurps being more prevalent now, if you can afford them and there is a particularly collectible piece you're looking for NOW is a good time to buy. I see some prices have also dropped now that more have become available on the market again. Where it stops, who knows. All I can tell you from experience is SNOOZE YOU LOSE.
 
I was at the big Easter show in Calgary. I have been to a lot of gunshows over the last four decades, coast to coast in Canada and the USA, but I have never been to a gun show with that many full-wood all original .303 Lee-Enfields for sale. They were everywhere, some tables were covered with them. I didn't need one so I wasn't looking at prices but just based on the amount for sale it seemed to be a total buyers market.
 
The lay offs from the oil patch are starting to have a trickle down effect. The folks that picked up the P17s, P14s, No4s and even some Ross Rifles/Garands/1903 Springfields because of the cool factor are needing money for a plethora of reasons. I have been approached several times in the last six months by people looking to move such items and it is going to get worse. When the cool toys are mostly sold the sporters will be next along with accessories.

I have seen this before with the oil field bust and boom cycles. I suspect this will last longer than the last one. With the new tech out there having spread across the world we are awash in oil and will be for a long time to come. Especially if China stops growing its economy. They are trying to transition into a consumer nation as well as a builder/exporter.

The oil patch may not rebound quickly but it won't completely die either. Same goes for the NGL and NG.

As far as the milsurps being more prevalent now, if you can afford them and there is a particularly collectible piece you're looking for NOW is a good time to buy. I see some prices have also dropped now that more have become available on the market again. Where it stops, who knows. All I can tell you from experience is SNOOZE YOU LOSE.

I'd say your right on the money there.

Times are tough and some people have to sell what they don't essentially need to get by. Nothing unusual there.
 
I think everyone knows that the prices on all Milsurps have recently been rapidly escalating...What I'm saying is that in the short term there may be a dip in .303 Lee-Enfield prices, aka "a buyer's market", simply because of the amount of them suddenly being dumped on the market.

Prices have been rising steadily. Might be a seller's market.
 
The lay offs from the oil patch are starting to have a trickle down effect. The folks that picked up the P17s, P14s, No4s and even some Ross Rifles/Garands/1903 Springfields because of the cool factor are needing money for a plethora of reasons. I have been approached several times in the last six months by people looking to move such items and it is going to get worse. When the cool toys are mostly sold the sporters will be next along with accessories.

I have seen this before with the oil field bust and boom cycles. I suspect this will last longer than the last one. With the new tech out there having spread across the world we are awash in oil and will be for a long time to come. Especially if China stops growing its economy. They are trying to transition into a consumer nation as well as a builder/exporter.

The oil patch may not rebound quickly but it won't completely die either. Same goes for the NGL and NG.

As far as the milsurps being more prevalent now, if you can afford them and there is a particularly collectible piece you're looking for NOW is a good time to buy. I see some prices have also dropped now that more have become available on the market again. Where it stops, who knows. All I can tell you from experience is SNOOZE YOU LOSE.

I was at the big Easter show in Calgary. I have been to a lot of gunshows over the last four decades, coast to coast in Canada and the USA, but I have never been to a gun show with that many full-wood all original .303 Lee-Enfields for sale. They were everywhere, some tables were covered with them. I didn't need one so I wasn't looking at prices but just based on the amount for sale it seemed to be a total buyers market.

The Alberta Cycle:
Oil Booms, everything collectible flows into the province. Guns. Cars. Fancy tin shop signs. You name it.
Oil busts, and it all goes back on the market. Just wait for the bank repo sales... Should start seeing that happen this summer.
 
The Alberta Cycle:
Oil Booms, everything collectible flows into the province. Guns. Cars. Fancy tin shop signs. You name it.
Oil busts, and it all goes back on the market. Just wait for the bank repo sales... Should start seeing that happen this summer.

A friend I work with, his wife is in the banking industry. She now deals exclusively helping people keep their homes if at all possible. It is already happening that they are losing their houses.
 
A friend I work with, his wife is in the banking industry. She now deals exclusively helping people keep their homes if at all possible. It is already happening that they are losing their houses.

There's a weird, "only in Alberta" rule about mortgages... If you walk away from your mortgage, legally, the bank can't do anything about it, they get your house and that's the end of it. Every other province, they can chase you down as a creditor.

Works fine for the banks when real estate values are constantly climbing. But when the busts happen, and real estate values drop, the banks get left holding the bag on assets that aren't worth the value of the loan.

Lived in this province my whole life. In 45 years, I've learned the following:

1: Pay your sh!t off, or the bank owns your @ss when the good times end.
2: The good times always end.
3: Working in the patch only seems like good money. In the long run, you're better off with a slightly lower salary that doesn't go away whenever there's a slump.
4: Mowing lawns and shoveling the walks for all the "lifetime compo award winners" when you're a kid teaches you why riggers are all imports - locals know the $$ isn't worth the risk.
 
There's a weird, "only in Alberta" rule about mortgages... If you walk away from your mortgage, legally, the bank can't do anything about it, they get your house and that's the end of it. Every other province, they can chase you down as a creditor.

Works fine for the banks when real estate values are constantly climbing. But when the busts happen, and real estate values drop, the banks get left holding the bag on assets that aren't worth the value of the loan.

Lived in this province my whole life. In 45 years, I've learned the following:

1: Pay your sh!t off, or the bank owns your @ss when the good times end.
2: The good times always end.
3: Working in the patch only seems like good money. In the long run, you're better off with a slightly lower salary that doesn't go away whenever there's a slump.
4: Mowing lawns and shoveling the walks for all the "lifetime compo award winners" when you're a kid teaches you why riggers are all imports - locals know the $$ isn't worth the risk.

I never knew that about Alberta and mortgages.

Interesting.

On another note, crime has skyrocketed in Alberta oil communities. Wonder why...

At least I can buy an Enfield now!!
 
The Alberta Cycle:
Oil Booms, everything collectible flows into the province. Guns. Cars. Fancy tin shop signs. You name it.
Oil busts, and it all goes back on the market. Just wait for the bank repo sales... Should start seeing that happen this summer.

It's happening right now and you ain't seen nuthin' yet. Billions of wage dollars missing from the economy and our useless NDP government thinks the answer is to raise property taxes by a huge amount and borrow more money than our grandchildren's children will ever be able to pay off. And the billions worth of powerlines that the former thieving scum gave to Berkshire Hathaway that we get to pay for and the billions that we have to borrow so we can give it to other even worse governments. Alberta is so screwed it's not funny. Hope you're all happy now.
 
It's happening right now and you ain't seen nuthin' yet. Billions of wage dollars missing from the economy and our useless NDP government thinks the answer is to raise property taxes by a huge amount and borrow more money than our grandchildren's children will ever be able to pay off. And the billions worth of powerlines that the former thieving scum gave to Berkshire Hathaway that we get to pay for and the billions that we have to borrow so we can give it to other even worse governments. Alberta is so screwed it's not funny. Hope you're all happy now.

I doubt anyone on this forum is happy about the situation here. Two of my closest friends (and hunting buddies) have left the province to get work. Both are stuck paying mortgages on houses they can't sell. Nuthouse Notley is going out of her way to make things worse with the increased property taxes, business taxes, carbon taxes... tax tax tax friggin Dipper Cash Grab, and then pile the debt on top of that to feed their union overlords in the public sector.

It'll take decades to recover from one term of Dipper stupidity.
 
I doubt anyone on this forum is happy about the situation here. Two of my closest friends (and hunting buddies) have left the province to get work. Both are stuck paying mortgages on houses they can't sell. Nuthouse Notley is going out of her way to make things worse with the increased property taxes, business taxes, carbon taxes... tax tax tax friggin Dipper Cash Grab, and then pile the debt on top of that to feed their union overlords in the public sector.

It'll take decades to recover from one term of Dipper stupidity.

As Margaret Thatcher is quoted as saying,

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money..."
 
To keep it on topic...I like enfields.

Now...

Ya I hear ya. It isn't going to be good that is for sure.

I see Manitoba may actually finally boot out their ndp. I am hoping that here in AB that we actually don't let it last more than 1 term.

Look at what bob rae's ndp did to Ontario. The are still in the heap and getting deeper every day.

Ontario & Quebec are NDP/ Liberal / welfare paradises simply because the big city's are government union territory...after all when you are never personally responsible for anything you get to think that it's the natural order.

And they vote in blocks...
 
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