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Nelly
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Topic: he!!o from Western Canada! (Yet again!)Posted: February 24 2024 at 4:21pm |
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Darn it - Totally misread the forum topic lines, and posted in the "Info FOR new members" area.
Must be time for new glasses!! Anyway: Hi, from Vancouver-ish, Canada. I used to hang around a long time ago (like 1998) on Mark Bitting's British Rifles forum, then life got in the way. Just about to start oiling some wood, again, and looking for ammo (although I realise that I might have to sell my progeny, for ammunition, these days!). The small collection that lives at my house: -1943 Lithgow SMLE III* (With EFD fore-end and butt, and ISA handguard, as the coachwood originals were looking a little delicate - still got 'em, though); -1943 Longbranch No. 4 Mk.I*; -1942(?) Maltby manufactured No. 4 Mk.I, converted to single shot .22LR by AS ARM, Belgium, and very much my wife the sniper's beast; -1945 Fazakerly No. 5; -1954 Fazakerly No. 4 Mk. 2; -EAL Carbine. ![]() |
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paddyofurniture
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Posted: February 25 2024 at 4:08am |
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Welcome from North Carolina in the States.
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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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Posted: February 25 2024 at 6:41am |
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I have always been fascinated with the EAL rifles.
Do you know your rifles history by any chance?
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Nelly
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Posted: February 25 2024 at 7:32am |
No, not at all. Like the vast majority of Enfields, no proper records kept of where or to whom they went. If I understand correctly, mine is one of the civilian pattern types, with the aperture sights, and ten round magazine. (Rather than the alleged RCAF-issue type, with a five round mag, and open sights). It has also, sadly, been badly drilled for a scope mount on the top of the receiver, not in the way that some of the service-issued ones were, with the mount holes for a Tasco telescope drilled through the left wall of the receiver. It's bore looks awful, but with Federal blue box 150gr, it would stick the first round out of a clean , cold barrel within 1/4" of where I wanted it, at 100m... Back when my eyes could focus on the foresight! The butt pad is still slightly elastic, but I fear it will fail, one of these years. An interesting side note: My recently-deceased Father-in-law served with the RCAF from '52-'77, and was on Search and Rescue, in addition to his regular duties. A lot of his time was working on the mid-Canada radar line, in the northern half of nowhere in Ontario, Quebec, and BC, so when the teams were out, they always had a rifle or two, for large animal protection. When I first mentioned my interest in the EAL, he DID claim to recall that they were sometimes issued "cut down Enfields", so could quite possibly have been EAL carbines. Because of it's possible connection to my dear Dad-in-Law, and his service, it is one rifle I will never sell, even if this particular example is a little rough. Cheers, Neal
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Posted: February 25 2024 at 12:10pm |
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Welcome from the east coast of new brunswick
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paddyofurniture
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Posted: February 25 2024 at 2:20pm |
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my Grandparents came from NB.
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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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Posted: February 25 2024 at 6:16pm |
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nice collection ,
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