Purists look away

Gentlemen ! I have noticed that people are almost scared of ,posting ideas involving anything but the Lee Enfield in it's standard form! I'm here to challenge that idea !

    Now whilst it's good to have rifles in their original state Personally all my enfields are sporterized & always have been as they are working rifles! I have stressed in the past that nobody blinks a eyelid at the thought of a Mauser or Styer or even a Manlicher being sporterized or converted to another caliber ! How many Springfield's have under gone this transformation ?
     Look at the beautiful work done by Parker Hale ,yrs ago reburnishing .303's? What about the Aussie Gunsmith's who after WW2 ,who had the brains & Guts to develop what went from being wild cats to commercial to admittedly Semi obsolete rounds like the 270-303 ,25-303,243-303 ?
       No I say Yes ! There is a place for collectors with Lee Enfields & I feel the is a need to preserve these rifles for Generations to come! But I also believe,there is a obligation to use these actions to make sturdy hunting rifles !!!!!!!!

         Dave 
  

I would never take an original rifle or one that had been FTR'd and sporterize.

I agree dave. The Lee Enfield makes a great sporter and there are so many already cut down, why not make what you want out of one of those.

I date back to the basic tool kit for a Enfield was a Hack saw blade & a triangular file!!!!! We'd buy em as full wood & then cut the wood back according to taste ! The bedding was achieved with a piece of car inner tube as I've described else where! a Dab of solder or Braze on the fore sight was filed down to get the rifle shooting roughly to original ! The top price paid for a Enfield was about $20.00 & a Parker hale rebuild was about $50.00 !!!!

     Dave    

My First Enfield which I still own ! (a 1902)  I paid the princely price of 15 shillings !!!!!! My Old man near killed me !

     Dave

i agree dave , and oldbikewrench summed up my thoughts as well , ive been thinking of picking up such remains and working up a hobby gun or two , for cheap , for fun , for plinking and perhaps for sale

Mine been sporterized but not much.
I am sure the barrel is still to its full lenght and did not being cut.

The only thing they did to my enfield (i think)is to set a sporterized stock.

I think there is not any rifle out there that have a better look thant that lol
a no4 mk1 with a sporter stock.

The thing that bother me the most is the unmatching parts number :( but i have to do with it, i have get it as is and it was proibably the only one i could get locally.

Also, if i had one in original condition, I would keep it 100% original even if i think they are ugly with the original stock lol.

They're still being issued to troops @ this date.
Hoadie