Your first Enfield rifle

Were did you get your first Enfield rifle.
And how much did you pay for it.
I picked up two at a gun show, because my neighbor was with me and he wanted one too.
A dealer had a crate of them still packed in cosmoline.
$ 72.95 each. #4 MK 1 .

Free... 1967. I was seven years old. My Dad died, Korean vet, at the age of 44. My older brother (eight years old) was passed a 12 gauge Stevens double and a Ranger .22 repeater, I got the Parker Hale No4 Lee Enfield (5 round P-H Japan magazine.) and a Cooey .22 Model 39. My older sister got the .22/16 gauge O/U I never really recalled. My older brother has hounded her and me to give us those weapons for 30 years. I passed the Enfield to one of my other sister's boys (Afgan/Mali vet, loves all things military) and the .22 to her other boy, an avid firearms gent about four years ago. My sister's husband had just passed and she was absolutely thrilled with the gesture, as we're his boys. My brother, not so much...

In the mid 1980s a P-14 select grade with bayonet for  115 USD 

I bought my only Lee Enfield a little over four years ago, a Savage made No.4 mkI* for $200 Canadian from a gentleman that was selling a few of them. I also bought one for one of my brothers at the same time.
Have since added a sporterize Lee Medford and two Ross rifles to it as well.

my first , i still have it , 1915 BSA mkIII , was actually bought be my father for about $7 USD in the late 50s at sears , i grew up shooting it and he left it to me , it hung over the lower level fireplace all my life along with my first springfield M1903 , bought at the same time for about the same value in the same place , both were in barrels of surplus rifles , 

I always love it when this topic comes up. My first is also my favorite. My dad bought it for me in about 1990. He bought to No 1 Mk III*'s at $60 each and gave me one for my first deer rifle. Mine is a 1917 BSA. The wood on it gave up the ghost long ago so I replaced it with an Indian DP stock set. I also re-blued the metal. It's one I will never sell so I have no regrets over that. Here she is:

My first, and only at this time, is a BSA Sht LE III* 1916 that appears to be a sporterized Frankenfield. Mismatched bolt and receiver, possibly replaced barrel and a sport stock, missing charge bridge with a Williams rear peep sight. Total cost........$25.00 in 1979. It shoots, it scores, we eat.

i like the idea of passing them down , no matter the stories - they were carried by your forefathers at some point , it is only fitting they be passed down and respected , i have an heir who will follow this tradition but i fear for the future beyond ..........not sure they were raised well enough to understand the heritage of this tradition , the value of it ,