Here’s our take on the various "bargains" that have been showing up lately.
Knock-offs, and an even greater number are just plain confused. A lot of people are getting burned by these Was) gets lost, the price gets jacked up, and the seller claims (maybe because he believes it) that the piece really is a long-lost treasure. The problem arises when these aftermarket replicas pass through several hands and wind up offered for sale at a gun show or in a pawn shop. SARCO and SOG (among others) are also marketing these (or similar) rifles for comparable prices, again with fair-or at least technically honest-advertising. Navy Arms Company is making and selling a lot of these, and they usually describe them (albeit in the fine print) as "replicas" or "constructed of original No. The overwhelming majority of these “finds” are recently-made parts guns or replicas or recent aftermarket conversions of standard No. Nor are they long-lost “prototypes” that have suddenly surfaced. For the most part, though, they are not recently discovered “unissued” rifles, Many of these are quite handsome rifles with pretty decent workmanship and are probably worth the $125 to $150 that the major firearms distributors ask for them. Over the past several months, Enfield Rifle Research has received dozens of questionsĪbout the spate of "new" and "rare" Lee-Enfields that have been showing up lately at gun shows and in pawn shops. 303 Brit.Replicas, and Fakes Lee-Enfield Modifications, The sight, mount & cheekpiece have been added to a stock rifle by me, but you get the idea of what a #4 Mk II looks like in. Of course this may have been changed as part of a conversion to 7.62mm. The Envoy & Enforcer rifles had a much shorter front stock which stopped about 1/2 way along the barrel length & the top of the barrel was exposed all the way to the breech. The Lee Enfields had wood almost all the way to the muzzle, only about the last 2' of barrel being visible, they also had a wooden covering over the top of the barrel to the same point in the length. 303 barrels, but this was done to handle the higher pressure of the 7.62mm load, not for anything else.Īs a hint.
The 7.62mm barrels were a lot thicker than the original. Is there a caliber marking on the barrel itself? this should clarify the chambering of your exact rifle & remove confusion. There may also be a green, or black spot (filled in circle) on the box.Ĭould you have a #4 Mk II rebarreled to 7.62mm? This was a popular conversion 'back in the day' & was used a lot for long range (1,000 Yd) competition. The crosshair (cross in a circle) denotes NATO spec ammunition BTW. However the ammunition headstamp is for a 7.62mm NATO load (the L42A1), not to be confused with the L42A1 designation of the Envoy. There were versions of the Enfield as dedicated marksmanship rifles, the 元9 & L41 but I'm not familiar with the markings these would have had on them, I'm assuming it would have been marked as 元9, or L42 respectively, not #4 Mk II? 303 British, the classic Lee-Enfield load. '#4 Mk2, UF '55' is a Fazackerly made Lee Enfield #4 Mk II rifle from 1955, I have a similar rifle from the same UF '55 lot, but with an A 189xx serial number, very close but no cigar, but not an envoy or enforcer, it is chambered in.
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