My Favorite Shooter, Enfield No1 MkIII

[ovenpaa]

I like the dark wood on that John, lovely patena. Interesting that is has a later cocking piece than my BSA did, I wonder if that was a geographical thing.

Anyone know about this difference?

[huntervixen]

Hi mate,

Yep sure is, I joined the Severn Side range as a full member...in my humble opinion it's the finest "Gentleman's Country Club" in the country.

Very relaxed atmosphere, always a host of different fascinating people and firearms, early breach loaders to modern L96 sniper rifles!

You can park your car right behind your firing point, 100 and 200 yds, thats just fine for me and my Enfields with battle sights.

Richard the owner is always the perfect host/range officer.

What more could you want, well, add a bar and covered firing points and I would move in!

Cheers, John.

[huntervixen]

Hi,

Cheers mate, shes a beauty isn't she, with regard to the cocking piece, I think I am correct in saying that as a general rule the '*' version of the No1 was equipped with the flat ribbed cocking piece, though some still had the round type, I think it was more a case of whatever came to hand in the factorys.

They were quite often swapped out during arsenal reworks as they became worn.

In fact, post WW1 round cocking pieces made a come back and even the trials and early production No4's had them!

My other Enfield is a nice stock military 1943 Maltby made No4, that had the austerity 'unfluted' flat cocking piece....until it broke....it has a temporary Long branch made one fitted, until I can find another un-fluted replacment.....I do like my rifles absolutely stock milsurp!

Cheers, John

[Dr. Strangelove]

Might as well put mine here as well!


SMLE NoI MkIII*

[bobbob]

Here's another. 1940 dispersal, South African issue.

[jjvc]

Some great looking rifles getting a airing in this thread,

Cheers everyone,

Joe

[Tower75]

Here's mine, her name's Samantha

[bnz41]

Very nice smle, what is the make and year.... can I ask where is the range?

[Tower75]

No worries, and thanks.

It's a post WWI BSA, I think it was built in the 20s

The range in D-range. Middlewick, MoD owned, Colchester.

[dirtbag]

IMG_0355 No 1 MKIII Enfield.JPG

Here is my old No 1 Mk III Enfield, like I said in the thread title one of my favorite rifles to shoot. This is a BSA manufactured in 1917, bolt matches. The rifle just feels good to shoulder and works good also, decent bore for as old as it is. One of those rifles you can just feel history when holding, I'm happy to be it's caretaker for the next several decades. Research shows this Enfield was used by Australia from the large D stamped on the receiver, so who really knows where it's been and what it could tell us

Love that cherry wood, excellent