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Posted on 09/07/2022 5:45:18 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Early on a Sunday morning in June, a tractor-trailer backed into the rear parking lot of the Navy Arms warehouse north of Martinsburg, W.V. Inside the truck’s shipping container were four huge wooden crates containing a long-forgotten batch of British No. 4 Lee-Enfield rifles with a unique history. Two green, military-style chests, each brimming with plastic-wrapped bolts, accompanied the wooden containers. Inside the warehouse sat cardboard boxes filled with newly made No. 4 rifle magazines, waiting for their recipients to be offloaded. Valmore Forgett, III, president and CEO of Navy Arms, had shepherded these guns from their storage spot in France to this final point on a long journey that first started on C-47s, B-24s and B-17s flying over war-torn France.
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One of my favorite acquisitions is an Ishapore Enfield chambered in 7.62 NATO. Got it from a C&R dealer for $100. I should have bought 6 of them.
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Prices sure have gone up - I recall a few years ago these kinds of rifles were selling for $100 each ...
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My favorite C&R acquisitions were the Swiss K-31s and the Yugo SKS for $100. Wish I had bought a dozen of them each.
I was sorely tempted to grab a couple of those Swiss rifles when they hit the market. The rifles were very reasonably priced, about $200 or so IIRC. It was the ammo that was very expensive.
I should have grabbed 3 or 4 and a set of dies to reload for it.
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I forget who it was a few years ago that snagged that cache of weapons from the armory in Nepal. Great find.
I like my Enfield. It will take stripper clips.
Sounds like they've all been kept in pristine condition and seldom or never fired, as one would expect, except for the lost magazines.
I thought very seriously about getting a Schmidt-Rubin K-31, but in the end I didn’t want to stock and reload another cartridge. As you say, that 7.5X55 ammo was pricey.
Probably should have gone for it anyway. By now, I’d have long since recovered from the expenditure.
Wow, $1300 for an Enfield!
Yep. But it would be hard to find one with as little use as those.
Christian Kramer at inter-ordnance, I bought one of the Martini-Henrys from that batch. It’s an OK shooter, you have to roll your own ammo for it though
Thanks for posting!
Oh yeah, they’re serious collector pieces.
All lived the life of bouncing in the bed of trucks and other abuse.
Norma ammo was the common in 180 round nose & 150 psp. The 180’s using the 300m peep were 6” high at 100 yrds and the 150’s dead center at same.
Ammo needs to be mic’d before purchase. Too many have been selling .308 pills instead of correct .311’s.
That may have been the problem with the link’s test firing @ 50 yrds. For decades, people have been selling 303 “ball” ammo that had been reassembled with .308 pills.
I still have one of those truck rifles. Every few years I take it out and fire it once; 150 gr 311 softpoint at a red milk jug cap at 100yrds…hit.
CMMG has produced an AR/AK pattern rifle that will do what I originally wanted. It hasn't been a priority to buy one.
“One of my favorite acquisitions is an Ishapore Enfield chambered in 7.62 NATO.”
Aw, but then you can’t go around quoting that “Rule 303 speech”.
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