Well, I've had a little noodle around the place, and parts of it look and feel familiar!

I am a moderately-fat, moderately-old fella living on the wet west coast of Canada, and I USED to be pretty active on Mark Bitting's British Rifles forum... Long ago, in the last century! Then I went off and joined the Gravel Road Cops for a while, and procreated, and had slowly dying parents, and all that "stuff".

Anyway... I hope to be back, now, and dusting off the old girls in the safe, and finding a new jug of DBLO to polish their butts up again, and ... ammunition, I see, may be an issue - But I have a little on hand to start out, anyway!

So, looking forward to hopefully tracking down a few of the old crew, and making some new aquaintances, along the way.

Cheers, y'all!

Neal

Now to see how badly my eyes do with irons??! 

Welcome aboard but I must point out this isn't an interweb dating site 

Well, then - Why am I even bothering to turn up??

Thanks, neighbour!

Welcome.

As you can se the place hasn't really changed much.

(we did increase Hoadie's meds though at Matron's suggestion.)

I'm also blind, old, bald & fat, so you fit right in.

I don't remember being on Skennerton's site, just Mark Bitting's, then briefly on the gunboards forum... but I didn't like the feel of that place. Then, life got in the way of shooting, and here we are, 20 years' on.

I did have a couple of members of Bitting's British Rifles site (Mike Davies, now deceased, unfortunately, and Mark Stoner of PNEPS) at my wedding, where we were blessed to have use of a chromed '07 bayonet  (courtesy of a certain resident of Mooloolaba) to poke our celebratory cup cakes, however! I was also blessed to have corresponded with, and received a few odds and ends over the years from the legendary John Sukey, who alas, I understand has also shifted off this mortal coil. 

I must be getting old! Wondering if there is anyone else around here from the late 1990s / early 2000s?

We had quite an international crew, then. Glad to see more than few Canadians still lurking about, anyway! 

you dont happen to be the neil that was making handguards for the early long les ? 

Sadly, no - I'm not that skilled! 

Or, I am just a complete luddite, and unable to figure out how.

Either possibility seems real...

You cant post buy or sell ads, but I think that's it.

there's a cheat sheet down in info for new owners, give me  a minute & I'll find it & post a link.

There is also a file size limit. if your image is too big you'd need to resize a COPY & post that. Keep the big original.

https://enfield-rifles.com/picture-posting-resizing-cheat-sheet_topic5675.html" rel="nofollow - https://enfield-rifles.com/picture-posting-resizing-cheat-sheet_topic5675.html

Our household's current collection:

-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.

I've subsequently relocated!

Cheers,

Neal

i was one that collected one of each era and type i could find from the P1853 thru the korean era , it was a lot of fun researching and learning of all these eras but i do understand those that specialize in areas that are far more limited in scope , it would have been cheaper for me to concentrate on that era - at one timre i had at least one of every mfgr and each mark from each with all the bayonets of each mark and a few that had variations , sometimes i think that should have been enough but i was already audited and we can never limit our interest too much in my mind , 

after selling off most everything im trying to stay only with trainers now - oh and the few handguns i still have and ........................so many things , so little time 

Wasn't the specific plan, but things just kind of worked out that way. I always said that if I couldn't shoot a rifle, it had to have massive collectible status... Since I've never had the cash flow for a massively collectible rifle, mine all have had to have been safe to use. I DID have a 1918 SSA / NRF SMLE for a while, but traded it for the No. 5. I kinda regret that, now, but it is what it is. Would love to find a Long Tom some day, but... Not sure that the budget will allow a nice one!

There`s currently 2 on Gunpost.ca right now one is $1300 the other is $1600, same guy nice rifles by the looks of them. 1898 and 1901 all correct.

There`s also a Navy CLLE(1908????) asking $3500, personally too much for a rifle that`s not 100% correct. You`d have to research the Navy conversions to see what I`m seeing on that rifle.

The other 2 however are very reasonably priced.

Thanks for the heads up!

Neal