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To: PoorMuttly; Lurker
Hey, if you like the SMLE Lee-Enfield action, check out post # 271 on this thread. Gibbs Rifle Company (link is at the post) has a bunch of them, and prices are simply too low to avoid if one is an SMLE fan.
712 posted on 02/18/2004 4:00:36 PM PST by Long Cut (It's Great To Be Home In America, Finally.)
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To: Long Cut
Unfortunately, they are all 'unavailable' now.

Those are the Ishapore 2A SMLEs originally brought in by Navy Arms in New Jersey. They sold hundreds of them so I hear. Gibbs bought a bunch, cleaned them up, chrome plated them, and sold 'em out so I hear.

I spent a week or so refinishing some old drill stocks I got from a fellow freeper (thanks noumenon), and then picked up a composite sporter stock and a scope mount for it. Result? One damn fine sporter-scout type rifle with a 10 round mag chambered for a serious cartridge.

As Muttley says, the action is like butter and the bore was mint when I received mine. I doubt they were ever fired. From some research I've done via the net, apparently they aren't simply rechambered .303 Brit rifles but were completely reengineered for 7.62 x 51mm and were manufactured using modern steel.

All I know is I got a damn fine rifle.

Regards,

L

713 posted on 02/18/2004 4:38:59 PM PST by Lurker (Don't bite the hand that meads you.)
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