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The wife authorized an expenditure on one of the PF55 unfired #4mk2s last weekend. This one has the standard length butt. I have one that has the short butt so it will go on the selling block and be replaced by this one. It won't be unfired for long!

How many of these remained in the UK compared to shipped overseas? They are not uncommon here, a large group arrived in the 90s wrapped up nicely in the long storage packing which is how I got my first one.

Pictures in a couple weeks.

rufrdr wrote:The wife authorized an expenditure on one of the PF55 unfired #4mk2s last weekend. This one has the standard length butt. I have one that has the short butt so it will go on the selling block and be replaced by this one. It won't be unfired for long!

How many of these remained in the UK compared to shipped overseas? They are not uncommon here, a large group arrived in the 90s wrapped up nicely in the long storage packing which is how I got my first one.

Pictures in a couple weeks.

Do you have confirmation its been unfired? I seem to recall unissued receivers as having dried up according to a firearms dealer I once talked to. And the answer is with Lees, it always feels like we get the leftovers .

There were hundreds released in the 90s, brand new, unissued, unfired of Fazackerly manufactured in the 50s. Could even be had with brand new furniture because of 40 odd years of grease that may have marked the wood. Considering how utterly paranoid the government now is about releasing anything onto the civilian market, there are those of us who saw the release of these rifles as another part of the "sweetener" for the unjust handgun ban....

rufrdr wrote:The wife authorized an expenditure on one of the PF55 unfired #4mk2s last weekend. This one has the standard length butt. I have one that has the short butt so it will go on the selling block and be replaced by this one. It won't be unfired for long!

How many of these remained in the UK compared to shipped overseas? They are not uncommon here, a large group arrived in the 90s wrapped up nicely in the long storage packing which is how I got my first one.

Pictures in a couple weeks.

I own (when purchased) unfired No.4 Mk.2, UF batch (last 20,000 or so I believe to be made)
Mine has been stamped England so it was sold overseas and has some other import mark, story being it went over to the US, remained unfired, came back still in its grease, the guy I bought it from removed packing greased and never shot it as he became ill, so sold it to me.

Lust, pant, pant, swoon....

A massive quantity of unfired No.4 Mk.2 Enfields were released out of war stocks for sale in the early nineties, we're talking many tens of thousands. I happen to know this because a friend of mine signed them out of storage at Stafford.

They are quite common at my club a friend of mine owns two and I have one. On the plus side they are all post war dated so they are unpopular on the deact market.

Now that could sway me to the dark side of historic firearms...

Nice.

This was unissued and unfired when I bought mine. Was imported back from the states. Now it's just unissued







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