New Enfield from California! Buncha wierd markings
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Topic: New Enfield from California! Buncha wierd markings
Posted By: 13withinfinity
Subject: New Enfield from California! Buncha wierd markings
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 2:07pm
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The biggest thing that interests me is the bolt and receiver match, but the barrel does not.. However, the barrels number isnt all that far off from the receiver and the bolts :) Anyways! Here is the rifle as a whole:  And here are the fun markings:   So there it is :D
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: July 09 2012 at 4:52am
| nice looking rifle , congrats and welcome |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: July 09 2012 at 5:26am
| Welcome to the forum, nice looking rifle !! |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: July 09 2012 at 6:41am
Welcome to the addiction, nice start you have there. There is literally no one who knows all the obscures marks on an Enfield. There are makers marks, govenment marks, proof marks, & even individual inspectors marks, & so on. HOwever this link, & some of the others in the "links" section lower down the main menu should get you off to a good start in your quest. http://home.earthlink.net/~smithkaia8/" rel="nofollow -
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Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: July 09 2012 at 7:13am
| Had to take a second look thats a nice No1 MkIII for sure |
Posted By: Bear43
Date Posted: July 09 2012 at 7:31am
| That is a nice looking rifle but I have a request. Could you take a picture of the knox form of the barrel? I see a commercial BSA mark on there, but that other mark has me scratching my head. Never seen one like that before. As to the barrel number, looks like it someone mistook the 3 in the serial for a 5 when they stamped the number on the barrel. I had to look close at the receiver to realize it was actually a 3 as the third digit. All in all, it is a sharp looking rifle. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: July 09 2012 at 10:50am
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id like to see the right wrist marking , i too returned to gaze as it is a nice find , that is where we will see where she was made - its where the date is and the model ID
if its a BSA , 1915 was transitional from mkIII to MKIII* , mine an early one , is also a mkIII , later ones will have been mkIII* , others swithched ove on different schedule but all by 1916
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Posted By: 13withinfinity
Date Posted: July 13 2012 at 9:50am
sorry for the delay here! I took that picture as requested :)  |
Bear43 wrote:Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: July 13 2012 at 1:40pm
| Try Putting some talc or baby powder in the marking to add contrast |