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Your analogy is a fine one. (good dog!) I have an Ishapore SMLE in 7.62 NATO I picked up for about a hundred bucks last year. I wish I'd bought a dozen of them.

It's a darn fine shooter. I can crank through a magazine of 10 rounds nearly as fast as I can shoot my M1A.

I took it to a CMP shoot last summer, and all the rangemasters except one started laughing when I pulled it out of the case. "You'll never even place with that antique piece of junk!" they said.

One older vet came over to me and said "You know how to shoot that thing son?"

I said "I think so, sir."

"Don't worry. You'll do just fine."

"I intend to, sir."

Well, I placed third in the informal little shoot beating more than one person shooting an AR vundergun variant.

I was expecially pleased when I placed second in the rapid fire portion of the event.

After the formal part of the shoot, there were guys and gals lined up to shoot my 'antique piece of junk'.

Like I said. I wish I'd bought a dozen of them.

Regards,

L

P.S. I think you'd make a fine gun store porch dog.

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Your analogy is a fine one. (good dog!) I have an Ishapore SMLE in 7.62 NATO I picked up for about a hundred bucks last year. I wish I'd bought a dozen of them. It's a darn fine shooter. I can crank through a magazine of 10 rounds nearly as fast as I can shoot my M1A.

I took it to a CMP shoot last summer, and all the rangemasters except one started laughing when I pulled it out of the case. "You'll never even place with that antique piece of junk!" they said.

I'm just as fond of the Number 3 Mark I S.M.L.E, version, just as fast, or the Number 4, the sights of which work a little better with my tired old eyes. But I got my kid an Indian Ishapore SMLE in .303 for his 12th birthday, and that was almost a decade ago. Beware the shooter, like him, with that one rifle, who knows exactly what it'll do.