No.4 Mk 1

Paid about $600 for each of mine, but the non-.303 guns all command a premium. I could get my buddys BSA SMLE for $350, and the ammo for another $150.

There was an Ishapore 2A .308 at the last show for $300, but it was crusty and missing the magazine. :(
 
my long branch .303 rifle has the same style upper hand guard. a very good shooter.
 

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I had 15 various Enfield's at the peak of my collecting days. I paid an average of $39 for the #4's, and sold most of them for $600-$800 10 to 15 years later. Down to 2 each (Fazakerly and Savage) #4mk1's. 1 each #1mkIII* (BSA), and a primo #5mk1 Fazakerly. Used to use the Fazakerly #4 in a local Springfield match, and even got crazy once and used the #5! Didn't do so well, but it was a hoot!

I love the Enfields!
 
I wonder .. over the years .. in the world .. how much game has been taken with the Enfield variants ..
I have taken one whitetail buck and a few feral dogs with a Enfield I used to own .using Winchester 180gr SP
 
Buckeye63 said:
I used to be able to get them for around $75 to $100

I think I paid $60 for this one ..
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That's what I paid for my first one. Sold it many, many moons ago to a fellow WWII reenactor who was doing Brit for around $350. I finally bought another just recently and no it twernt no $60........... However this new one is in 10 times better shape than my first one, matter of fact the bore looks to be a virgin.

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I figure a 215 gr .303 RN would do about as well as WDM Bell's .256 and .275.
I don't know how well a Mk VII spitzer would do for the sporty but maybe inexperienced Bwana shooting service ammo.
Of course there were expansive bullets for it on medium game.

The older big bores were likely solid performers.
I once saw a .577 Snider sporting rifle and John Taylor had a deluxe Martini .577-.450, lost in a river when his canoe capsized.
 
I got into collecting No. 4's sort of by the back door. I'm primarily a U.S. military gun collector. But the "U.S. Property" marking on Savage No. 4's made them kind of "U.S.-adjacent." So I got one, and then another, and then I had to get a Canadian Long Branch to go with them. (I drew the line at the British-made ones because they were clearly of a lesser quality.) All three of my No. 4's have been upgraded with NOS wood and Singer micrometer sights. Naturally I had to get full sets of Pattern 37 web gear, and Webley and Enfield revolvers, to go with them.
 
351 WINCHESTER said:
I remember when Sears had no 5's in pickel barrels for something like $20. They were all well used.
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An Enfield is what got me into shooting. It was my Dad's deer rifle he used as a kid when hunting with his uncles. A 1942 Lee Enfield he bought as a kid from a barrel of cosmoline for about $10. As a kid, he also sporterized the stock and did a nice job of it (back then, they didn't have such issues about sporterizing milsurps).

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Am I late to the party?

An original 1943 No. 4 MK I (TR) all matching serial including wood except for the serialized scope. Which was not included with the rifle when my Grandmother mail ordered it when she was stationed in Alaska. Hard to tell if the rifle saw any combat but it sure slayed Kansas whitetail for decades till some gunsmith warned grandpa it would have case head separating and it got locked in the gun safe and forgotten about.

I begged and pleaded to see it and was a little disappointed in the state it was in so I stripped it down to the barreled action and cleaned it as best I could. Last year we tried to compete in Vintage Sniper but we just haven’t had much luck with load development. It’s minute of deer is fine but holding 2 MOA in a competition is difficult.

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