Enfield Safety

Greetings Forum members. I am in the Scottish American Military Society in Tampa, FL. Our Post has two No.4 Mark III’s for ceremonial use. Actually, I have had both checked out by a local gunsmith, and both rifles are fully operational; checked headspace, bore-scoped, etc. I will post pics of them later.  My question has to do with LE Blank ammunition.  I ran across this posting (see attached) from the American Legion which highlighted the danger of “Granada Launcher” ammunition vs. “Blank” ammunition.  I see that the Enfield did have a grenade launcher capability like the M1 Garand. Does anyone know if there is a specific Enfield grenade ammunition which should not be used as ceremonial blank ammo? 

Thanks for the valuable information.  I did find these at blankammo.com…..very expensive.  My organization is forming a funeral rifle honor guard and we will need to find some. Might reach out to some reloaders in the area. Once I take the No. 4s to the range to zero, I’ll save the brass for reloading. http://https://blankammo.com/products/military-ammo-blanks-303-british

Concur. Lots of “sketchy” stuff out there indeed. 

Ooops….brain cramp you are correct. We have two Enfield rifles, a No. 4 Mk I and a No. 4 Mk I* both 1942. One is stamped U.K on the front barrel, and the other is marked Canada. 

Rhino has a couple grenade t**sers..he could probobly offer some insight.

britrifles wrote: Never heard of a No. 4 Mk III, that’s a new one to me!

I think it was a case of using "salute" (noisemaker) blanks with rifle grenades, not the other way round. The salute blanks are designed with a really fast powder so they will go bang, rather than phut. If you put a couple of pounds of grenade in front of that & fire it its like a bore obstruction/powder overload.

Good times!