i bought an Enfield NO3 out of a barrel at a grocery store for 15 bucks lmao true story! I wish I had the money then to have bought the whole barrel full. I never owned a 30.06 variant and dont think I would trust the bolt configuration for that round maybe they beefed it up to handle that?
I have some 303 ammo head stamped 1920 pulled a bullet to check the powder and out fell what appeared to be black match sticks they were loaded with cordite back then in stick form! My friend took a few to the range and they all went bang...
It wasnt a SMLE#3. It was a eddystone M1917.It was the rifle of WW1, not the 1903 Springfield.
I have a SMLE#3 that was made in Canada dated 1943. The price tag was 99 dollars and it came with a pigsticker bayonet. The darn thing looks like it was never used.