...It is what it is...
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Topic: ...It is what it is...
Posted By: Goosic
Subject: ...It is what it is...
Date Posted: April 18 2023 at 4:03pm
This rifle was crafted in its entirety by myself using a conglomeration of parts. It can never be returned to its original configuration as it was when it left the Chicopee Falls Factory in 1943 but, it can still be used without the scope. It is chambered in 7.62x51mm and is capable of putting ten bullets inside a 50 cent piece at 100 yards. To many, it is just a sporterized military rifle and to some it is an abomination because it has been butchered and can never be returned to what it once was. However, and be that as it may, this rifle represents a love affair I have had with the Lee-Enfield rifle for the last 50 years. I consider this build to be my Magnum Opus...
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Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: April 18 2023 at 4:06pm
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Nice work, very cool. ------------- Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: April 18 2023 at 6:28pm
| i always appreciate seeing what you have done and the fact that your doing it with bits and pieces that are floating about makes perfect sense to me , as you know i always hate seeing one in military configuration taken from service or collections , that said ive never had an issue with one thats been sported being reconfigured to a better sporter , there are so many out there that were given the treatment over the years by hunters - there are plenty of opportunities and not a bad thing in any way , you do great work with yours , |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: April 19 2023 at 3:54am
| Growing up in Canada, seeing sporterized Lee Enfields was the norm, not the exception. When you could buy surplus rifles for $12.95 back in the Fifties and Sixties and the store had crates of them stacked one on top of the other, who cared if you lightened it a little or put a nicer stock on it. It's only now when original rifles in good condition are fetching a grand and rarer marks are fetching multiples of that do we start to fret when we hear talks of 'sporterizing'. Looking at your rifle, I wouldn't say you 'sporterized' it, I would say you improved it. |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: April 19 2023 at 7:15am
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I really like your rifle, it is very well put together and I would be proud to have it.I still own my 1st #4 Long Branch which was bought as a sporterized rifle way way back in the early 70's. I shot my first deer with it and it still comes with me each and every hunt. It is reliable, robust and very accurate. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: April 19 2023 at 10:23am
I made this one and the fake PH Custom No4 for my daughters so one day they can show them to their significant other and my future grandkids and say, "My dad/your grandpa made these." The grandkids can then show them to their kids and significant others and so forth and so on... |
Posted By: Stanforth
Date Posted: April 19 2023 at 12:34pm
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[QUOTE=A square 10]i always appreciate seeing what you have done and the fact that your doing it with bits and pieces that are floating about makes perfect sense to me , as you know i always hate seeing one in military configuration taken from service or collections , that said ive never had an issue with one thats been sported being reconfigured to a better sporter , there are so many out there that were given the treatment over the years by hunters - there are plenty of opportunities and not a bad thing in any way , you do great work with yours , You can always restore/alter something today but you Can NEVER return it to original
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Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: April 19 2023 at 1:11pm
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Stanforth. When I first found the rifle, it was just a barreled action and nothing else, with the 2 groove barrel wore out beyond serviceable use. Took that junk barrel off and started with clean slate, so to speak. I originally made it look identical to the L8 series of Enfields until I added the reproduction sniper scope. To some folk it went down hill from there. I removed all the furniture and started the sporterization process until I ended up with what you see before you. I can never return it to its original condition because it was not in its original condition when I found it...
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