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Hudson 
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 Topic: Rifle IdentificationPosted: October 12 2013 at 1:07pm |
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Hi Everyone! I have had this rifle for awhile tucked in my safe and have never used it. I have everything I need to fire the weapon but thought it would be best to get some info/history first. Looks like I found the right place. I took some photos.
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Posted: October 12 2013 at 2:16pm |
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Welcome to the forum.
There seems to be a dearth of pictures
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Posted: October 12 2013 at 9:00pm |
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He "took some pictures"...Looks like he TOOK 'em to a safe place, where we'd never see 'em!
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Loose wimmen tightened here
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Posted: October 12 2013 at 10:29pm |
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I will try to send the pictures again. Sorry guys.
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Alan de Enfield
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 12:19am |
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C'mon guys - he never said he had posted them, he only said he had 'took them'.
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 12:38am |
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Tease!
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 2:20am |
     
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 2:40am |
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 2:43am |
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 2:44am |
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 2:46am |
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Thanks for your patience!
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 4:45am |
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I think he'll fit right in
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 5:08am |
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Nice rifle, 1917 was a good year.
Looks like someone cut down the stock. How does it shoot? |
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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: October 13 2013 at 5:19am |
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Well - the obvious first
It has been sporterised (woodwork cut down) Manufactured in 1917 at the Enfield plant It is a Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) mark 3* The * after the 'mark' indicates it had several modifications to simplify manufacture during WW1 (ie removal of the 'cut off') It was sold into the UK civilian gun trade - hence the UK civilian 'proof marks' (BNP 303 2.222" 18.5tons per sq inch) Birmingham Nitro Proof 303 = calibre 2.222" = cartridge length 18.5 tons per sq inch = proof test It subsequently made its way into the USA before 1968 - hence the "England" import mark (after 1968 the marking requirements demanded the importers name as well) |
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 5:20am |
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The classic No1MkIII* SMLE.
It is quite restorable but a useful deer gun as is.
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Posted: October 13 2013 at 8:34am |
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Looks like a great "Bambi" buster to me.
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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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