From France!
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Topic: From France!
Posted By: sds
Subject: From France!
Date Posted: October 15 2023 at 10:51pm
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Can you be French and love Lee Enfields? Of course you can! I love them, collect them and use them with great pleasure. Sadly, very little documentation or books are available in France, so what a pleasure to be able to read you on this forum! he!!o to all enthusiasts and Best regards from France! |
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Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: October 16 2023 at 9:30am
| Welcome from Atlanta, GA. Let us know which LE rifles you have any your area of interest. |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: October 16 2023 at 10:00am
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Howdy from Phoenix Arizona system đ€ ! My No4Mk1 came from France after sitting in storage for almost 75 years.
 Again, welcome to the forum... |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: October 16 2023 at 10:17am
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Viva La France! Welcome from North Carolina in the States. Where in France are you located! ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: October 16 2023 at 10:29am
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We have a few French members, & some living, or who have lived in France in France, so you should be able to find some French-slanted information to help you. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Zed
Date Posted: October 16 2023 at 11:24am
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Welcome to the forum; from Paris! ------------- It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice! |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: October 16 2023 at 5:31pm
| welcome , glad you joined us , you will like it here |
Posted By: SW28fan
Date Posted: October 16 2023 at 6:51pm
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Welcome From Texas In addition to my Enfields among other rifles I have a Lebel 1886/93 a MAS 36 and MAS 45 ------------- Have a Nice Day If already having a nice day please disregard |
Posted By: sds
Date Posted: October 17 2023 at 2:48am
Thank you very much! I live in Marseille, France's second biggets city.  |
paddyofurniture wrote:Posted By: sds
Date Posted: October 17 2023 at 3:06am
Thak you very much! I mainly own Lee enfield No. 4s, most of which I import from England. Now importing a real n° 4 T and a other n°4 with the round cocking piece, both chambered in .303 british. I particularly like the Lee Enfield 22lr, n° 2, 8 & 9, I dream of a real n° 7, but I'm not sure I'll be able to find it as they are so hard to. But what I really love is the Lee Enfield story, the Skennerton and Laidler books. I am sorry to be not fluent in English Regards from France!
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Posted By: sds
Date Posted: October 17 2023 at 3:12am
Hope that, thank you very much. Even in English, it will help me improve my bad English. Regards from France
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Posted By: sds
Date Posted: October 17 2023 at 3:24am
Thanks a lot, Goosic! Surely one of those parachuted into France during WWII, to help the French "Resistance"! Which makes it a rare and historic N°4, and a beautiful one at that! Lucky Gossic! |
Posted By: sds
Date Posted: October 17 2023 at 3:28am
Thank you, compatriot! What a pleasure to learn and read interesting things about Lee Enfields here! (Merci, compatriote ! Quel bonheur de pouvoir apprendre et lire des choses intéressante sur les Lee Enfield ici !) |
Posted By: sds
Date Posted: October 17 2023 at 3:31am
Thank you very much! It's a great pleasure to be with you. And I already love this forum because what I've already read here is very, very interesting. See you soon! |
Posted By: sds
Date Posted: October 17 2023 at 3:36am
"Super !" Thank you and if you need help for yours french guns, it will be with pleasure. |
Posted By: sds
Date Posted: October 17 2023 at 3:43am
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Many thanks to all of you for your warm welcome!
best regards from France!
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: October 17 2023 at 11:18am
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Don't be nervous about your English its perfectly fine. Better than My French, possibly because I Leaned it from Belgian & Picard truck drivers in Aisne!  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: sds
Date Posted: October 18 2023 at 6:06am
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thank you for your encouragement! Trying to speak English properly, it is hard work! But it's a real pleasure because it allows me to enjoy the forum more and appreciate the contributors! Only one wish : to be fluent (and shoot the Lee Enfield )Regards |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 18 2023 at 2:59pm
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I dunno...when I was in Normandy 5 yr ago the gendarmes I spoke to used perfect english. By perfect I mean NO accent of any type, the use of our typical coloquilisms (ie: yeah,whats up? etc). & here I was trying my best to speak "French" with my little bit of Canadian french. (They even told me " Your proboly better off speaking English...cuz yer French sucks!)  ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: October 18 2023 at 4:21pm
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If you can speak "Southern" you are all set. You will be assimilated if you can drink shine and call out a Rebel Yell. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: October 18 2023 at 6:28pm
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My girlfriend, when I lived in France was taking "English as a foreign language". Her oral (English) teacher was from Brooklyn, NY so she spoke English with a Brooklyn "toity tree & too toids" & "Its a toitle, moitle" Brooklyn accent. I, speaking "Brizzle" accent/dialect Probably didn't help much either.  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: November 07 2023 at 4:36am
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"I particularly like the Lee Enfield 22lr, n° 2, 8
& 9, I dream of a real n° 7, but I'm not sure I'll be able to find
it as they are so hard to." Welcome from Canada Have you considered importing a No7 from Canada. There are lots here, and Canada don`t want us to have guns  , so it should be easy to get one out of here.Mind you they tend to be a bit pricey. Cheers
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