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White Rhino
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Posted: May 05 2006 at 7:56am |
I just purchased an enfield with yellow paint on the muzzle about
5 inches down from muzzle the tage tide to the trigger says mk I,
the band above the trigger has a date of enfield 1916 or maybe
its 1910 the 6 or 0 are kind of hard to make out then below that SMLE
now im assuming that the M is an M but it looks like a W missing a part
through it then below that there is a III , there is also a III
on the safety the yellow paint is what boyhers me. now the guy that i
bought the gun from said the yellow paint makes it moor valluble. i got
it for $69.95 because it didnt have the magazine with it. so also what
type mag. do i request when ordering one?
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G'day & welcome to the site . First up the Mag you require is for a
#1 MkIII as for the Yellow paint I have seen this on many of
these rifles & have no idea what it means
Dave |
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hoadie
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I may be wrong -& Tony might have somethin on this - but I seem to recall yellow paint on BRITISH made Enfields having something to do with either Foriegn service, foriegn export, or cadet issue.I'm not sure - @ my age I can't remember what I did 10 mins ago.
What wuz I sayin ? Oh yeah...Tony - he's a great guy.Has yellow paint on his knickers, I think. Hoadie |
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allan
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gday white rhino! welcome to the circus yes i agree with ya hoadie..im under the impression that the yellow paint means its cadet/training issue. at least thats what ive read, somewhere at sometime,cant remember where i saw this though. ive also seen the bayonets at gun shows with this yellow "ring" around the grips. very rare i think...maybe someone else knows more on this. |
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because it has the yellow paint on it, dose it mean it is more valueable?
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allan
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more valueable probably in the sense that they are rare as rockin horse poop i think... |
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I've been giving this some thought ! & have come up with the yellow
band means it was for issue for soldiers like me ! Born with the brains
& Body of a hero .....But cursed with the legs of a coward I was actualy given the RFE (retreating from the enemy)
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NOW I remember!! Uhhh....oh yeah- that yellow paint is more common than you might think. Thar was some on my Martini Henry - but it was in the grooves of the numbers that were stamped into the stock. & It's also found on Tony's knickers.
I think there is/was something about white paint, too. My ORIGINAL bayo for my 1858 Enfield has the white paint acroos the twist band.(No - it's not from surrendering, or "colours that run !" As for more valuable - I think he means that if you try to remove it - it will bring the value down. Hoadie |
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White Rhino
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Well anyhow, I relally enjoyed the feed back on my enfield, I really
dont care about worth in $$$$$ but the gun means a lot to me i had a
hard time getting the gun in the fist time after having problems with
not having the other gun that i wanted they decided to hold every
thing till the other guns came inthat was 2/8/06 then when the shipment
came in I hade an SKS instead of my enfield well i bought another one
from my favorite place in town while waiting on the # Mark III
Its a No# 4 MKI ROF (F) 6/43 . Its pretty sweet! My son and i
shot it the day i got it . I realy like the feel of these old
beuties. hey the No#4 has no yellow paint on it. well let
me go i've got a date with the dentist and it not going to be nice.
talk to yall some more latter
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Yanks ! If your gonna deal with Enfields, use the proper terminology...RIFLE, not "gun" (it isn't a shotgun.) & MAGAZINE, not clip, & CHARGER, not stripper!! Man, what y'all do to the good king's english!!
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well i am takin me gun out shooting today and have my stripper clips ready to go. my clip will be full of 10 rounds. cheers!!! |
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I'm sure there is not one of us here that has memories of taking their first shots with their First Rifle esp a Centre Fire ! I'm not talking about someone who let you have a shot of theirs .I mean your first Owned rifle ! Good luck & enjoy & in the words of Breaker Morant ........Shoot straight you Bastards ! Dave |
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Dave...i remember my first shot of my first centrefire, but it werent a rifle. my 12g shotgun "side b side".. shot it both triggers with sg's in the spouts..bruised my cheek, near broke my collar bone...AND LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT! ah memories. hence my email address! |
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My No1MKIII Lithgow rifle had the yellow paint on the bayo lug and some on the wood when I bought it. According to Skennerton the paint was applied to cadet rifles. I took some furniture stripper and removed it and now it looks like it should. Its kind of like removing bird crap from the statue of Liberty. |
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I don't think you shoulda done that. It may bugger up the value. I'm far from bein an expert - but methinks thats the way it goes.
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yeh i gotta agree with hoadie. i like things original and marked as they were made...but... its personal preference and its your bayo. Edited by allan - May 27 2006 at 3:37pm |
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