ID Help
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Category: Enfields
Forum Name: After Market Enfields
Forum Description: What have you done to that Enfield??
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Topic: ID Help
Posted By: Joecarquest
Subject: ID Help
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 5:29pm
| New to this forum. Trying to figure this rifle out. I inherited from a family member. Been looking on line can't find a match or even close. If this is the wrong forum let me know |
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Posted By: terrylee
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 12:18am
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As an Enfield owner you would be very welcome. It is suggested that you provide a photo of your rifle. |
Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 4:16am
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Not much to go on now…. A photo of the full rifle, and close ups of the action. If it’s an Enfield, we can help. Would also help if you tell what markings are on it.
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Posted By: Joecarquest
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 5:40am
trying       
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 12:12pm
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It was a No4 Mk1. It's been massively, "Sporterised" (made to look & function like a sporting rifle.) It's had lots of non-replaceable stuff removed so there's no way to restore it to original condition. If it's a good shooter, many are, keep it & use it for that in good health. It would have originally looked a lot like this:  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 12:36pm
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Barrel is marked M47C, which is the BSA Shirley plant. I don’t see any of the usual markings on the left side of the action body butt stock wrist. Either scrubbed, or perhaps made under a BSA commercial program? By the way, the action is cocked, should not store the rifle this way, it weakens the striker spring. |
Posted By: Joecarquest
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 3:00pm
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Can't figure how to open up the mag well
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 5:53pm
| its been modified extensively , does it feed cartridges ? enfields are loaded from the top , |
Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 6:42pm
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Are there any markings that look like a serial number? Many have letter(s) followed by numbers. You may need to remove the trigger guard to get the magazine out. The magazine has been cut down to be flush with the forend. Likely holds only 5 cartridges. |
Posted By: Joecarquest
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 7:02pm
| Been trying to get trigger guard off. No success yet |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 7:50pm
| Magazine might be modified to not come oot the bottom and top-load/unload only. Had a Remington 700 .243 like that. Great rifle, pain to unload. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 11:44am
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That looks more like a "floor-plate" than a magazine to me? Does it take multiple round from the top? To remove it all, unscrew the big screw in front of the magazine & remove. Remove the small cross bolt from the rear of the trigger guard. be careful with it they're easy to strip & hard to find. now pull down & wiggle ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 1:10pm
| "Floor plate"! Shamu, that's the word I couldn't remember! |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 1:53pm
More like magazine cover. Japanese rifles have floor plates as do Mauser rifles. Never seen this on a Enfield. I think it is the work of Bubba other brother, the other Bubba. ------------- 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. |
Honkytonk wrote:Posted By: Joecarquest
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 4:26pm
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figured it out  |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 5:45pm
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Ruh Roh rik rasterdly! Please Tell me you didn't "lever that forend off" by pulling down on the front, please.  That's a a fast way of damaging the "Draws" of the Enfield bedding. It should be removed parallel to the barrel, tapping on alternating rear left & right till it comes loose. When reassembling make sure you get the trigger's top extension correctly mated to the sear. ot goes behind the sear, with the 2 bumps bearing on the sear's upper surface.  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Joecarquest
Date Posted: July 04 2024 at 3:19pm
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Been looking at what front sights it may have had. Any suggestions
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