Collector grade Enfield rifle

[ditchtiger]

A local Gun Store is selling some rifles from an estate of a former FFL.
Some great finds, This is where my unfired SKS-D came from. This came to the store the other day.
This is an Australian Lithgow Enfield SMLE No. 1 Mk III. Brand new, in the box, 1943 date IIRC. .303
I'm not a .303 shooter but this looks perfect. Sell price is $950. The store is GunRunner Arms.
Address: 93244 OR-99, Junction City, OR 97448
Phone: (541) 998-3869
Hours:
Open today · 10AM–6PM

This is a web picture just to show the model.

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[Medic!]

Box?

Any paperwork showing provenance?

Don't get me wrong for sounding skeptical?
It dose sound awesome! And I want it.

 

[ditchtiger]

Contact info shown, call them.

 

[tac]

Box?

'Box'? Are you kidding? They never came in boxes, they came in big wooden chests of five/ten.

You be's axin' for the swing tag next!

tac

 

[ditchtiger]

'Box'? Are you kidding? They never came in boxes, they came in big wooden chests of five/ten.

You be's axin' for the swing tag next!

tac

Now don't get picky, I did not say it came in a box when new from the factory. Just that it was in a box.
Seriously, I did not think about that at the time. .303's are not my area of interest.

 

[tac]

tac

 

[F2CMaDMaXX]

This interests me highly

 

[ditchtiger]

tac

So contact them for pictures.
The store is GunRunner Arms.
Address: 93244 OR-99, Junction City, OR 97448
Phone: (541) 998-3869
Hours:
Open today · 10AM–6PM

 

[tac]

Well, I thought that now now it was in your possession...

tac

 

[ditchtiger]

Well, I thought that now now it was in your possession...

tac

I've no 303 ammo. Don't wish for another caliber. I do have a .303 pistol but no way I'm ever going to pull the trigger on it.

 

[ditchtiger]

So here are some photos.

 

[Medic!]

I see why you got excited.

I know what it is.
But I don't even know what that is!

 

[ditchtiger]

I know what it is.
But I don't even know what that is!

"I know what it is.
But I don't even know what that is."

???????????????

 

[Medic!]

"I know what it is.
But I don't even know what that is."

???????????????

Reproduction? Never heard of one.

Time travel? No. That doesn't exist.

WTH? It's just so clean it doesn't compute!

 

[ditchtiger]

It's just so clean it doesn't compute!

I know, to see it is awesome.
An old LGS bought it, got packed away and forgotten. The old LGS owner died and now the family is going through a room full and that's where it came from.

 

[Brutus57]

They can be this magnificent. In the 90s I was given a No.2 Mark IV, Long Branch armory, beautiful gun. The rifle had been cleaned nicely but the spike bayonet still had cosmoline on it. Never fired, Previous owner (bless you Ilene wherever you are) and her hubby bought 4 for $75.00 each in the 80s.


She kept two and then gave me one. Not a month goes by I don't miss it. It was lost/stolen in a move. (I think a shady landlord took it out of the garage/house we had been renting) but I couldn't prove it and didn't realize it was gone until months later during relocating for a new job about 8 years ago.

Brutus Out

 

[Medic!]

They can be this magnificent. In the 90s I was given a No.2 Mark IV, Long Branch armory, beautiful gun. The rifle had been cleaned nicely but the spike bayonet still had cosmoline on it. Never fired, Previous owner (bless you Ilene wherever you are) and her hubby bought 4 for $75.00 each in the 80s.


She kept two and then gave me one. Not a month goes by I don't miss it. It was lost/stolen in a move. (I think a shady landlord took it out of the garage/house we had been renting) but I couldn't prove it and didn't realize it was gone until months later during relocating for a new job about 8 years ago.

Brutus Out

Sure. But in the 90's was 20 years ago.

And you know the advice always given is in those ''Should I shoot it'' threads.

 

[cooper]

That is awesome all the work you did to get this to usTHANKYOU....

So here are some photos.
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[tac]

I've no 303 ammo. Don't wish for another caliber. I do have a .303 pistol but no way I'm ever going to pull the trigger on it.

A .303 pistol?

Do tell.

tac

 

[ditchtiger]

A .303 pistol?

Do tell.

tac

I did.
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