Yesterday's Weapons Forums

Here is my small pile of Enfield rifles for all to see! This is the results of about 8 years of hunting for these rifles and if I could find decent surplus ammo they would be used more often. The 308 gets the most use and is the prettiest of the bunch.

On page 237 of the book "the lee enfield story" by Ian Skennerton it states this: Going back to the begining of the 7.62mm NATO era,the strength of the No.4 action was sufficient for higher pressure 7.62mm cartridge,however,as the No.1 action was not as strong,no serious moves were made in england in this direction.Test with a reinforced No.1 action were made in Australia, in India the 7.62mm NATO variant of the No.1 rifle was produced as the rifle 2A. For the refurbished 7.62mm No.4 rifles, the first "conversion kit" was developed by Sterling Armament and patented in 1959. The sterling Armament conversion kit consisted of a new 7.62mm barrel made in Belgium by Canons Delcour, a new bolthead,extractor,charger guide adaptor,ejector and magazine made by sterling. There is a picture of a conversion and it has the same mag as your rifle. There is more info about this but to much for me to type. hope it helps. 1000 conversions were sent to Sierra Leone.New Zealand Armed forces adopted some in 1960 for the police force.The next page talks about a kit made by Enfield to convert No.5 rifles to 7.62mm

MYBUSA,
As far as RCMP Rifles go , there is a book"Arms & Accoutrements of the R.C.M.P. " That list all the weapons the used, Browning 1910's,Lee Enfield Rifles,Etc... The rifle I had A a brass disc with marking that indicated use as well a a round stamp on the butt stock marked RCMP I will see if I can find my old pics of it.

there are posts missing here - ive posted - where did they go ?


nice looking assortment and you needent be humble , you have a lot of really nice rifles there ,

MYBUSA

check out this website and look under british military , you will see he has four or five RCMP rifles for sale.

subhunter76

Thanks for the info and link! In the am i'll do some more digging into the 308 and RCMP rifles.

Thanks again!

New here but very nice collection you have, love them enfields.

303

Welcome to the board!

yes welcome , you have somehow slipped under my radar [daily pervue] we love new members , particularly those inclined to our beloved enfeilds , arent all that many of us here but there are more than one excelent collection and some very infomative folks among us

A Square is being humble!

He has the best displays of any I have seen!!

mark , every time i see your sterling i kick myself for selling my charnwood , both of these were state of the art conversions to 308 , and not the indian 762x51 nato rifles in any way , true 308 match rifles ,

wonder if i even have a photo anymore ? must look when i get time ,

thanks for the compliment but you know my collection is limited - just in that funky cedar box

FUNKY CEDAR BOX?

You have got to be kidding me! Yes that 308 is a great rifle. Our mutual acquaintance has a spare mag and he only wants 125.00. I need to bug him more about it!

Welcome 303luver,

these Enfields are renowned for being addictive - no pretty cedar just cheap pine

Nice look group of rifles there! It's always nice to see a row or two of the same type of rifles!

Thanks for sharing!

he does have some one would like to touch , doesn't he ?

i want a full accounting of each and every one , start left-to-right bottom row and work up , i can guess but i want the facts ............

ill add mine if it seems there is interest , but this new stuff is really fun - mine are in the archives ,

we need a bit of activity here in the enfeild area - the Mosins have been dominating for far too long

Thanks for welcoming me looking to dealing with you guys.