Help With Identifying Rifle
 

Hi All,

Hoping that someone can give me some information. A friend of mine brought over an old rifle that he hoped I could help him with. Im no gun expert other than cleaning and mounting scopes and such so I decided to take some pictures and see what info I could find on it for him. I tried getting a picture of the markings on the rifle but none turned out enough to read.

There is a crown with GR 1918 and a capitol S with HT underlined next to it and L.E. and III under that with a * next to that ( Hope that makes sense )
I have the S/N and looks to be a 303..hard to tell as most of the markings have been stamped over with a X.

Anyone have some ideas? Or know of a site that this info can be researched on?

Thanks,
S

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A bubba version of the Short Magazine Lee Enfield Mark III*. (Sht L.E. III*)

The receiver was made in 1918.

It was modified for sport use - who knows - anytime after WWI - the modifier probably is the one who stamped over the other markings with the x.

http://www.enfieldrifles.ca/in9.htm

Lee Enfield No 1 Mark 3* 1918, GR stands for Geroge V
The action is Lee and the rifling is Enfield = Lee Enfield
Here are a couple of links to decipher the markings, part of the fun for these rifles is uderstanding the markings and the history.

http://home.earthlink.net/~smithkaia8/index.html

http://www.enfield-stuff.com/codes_&..._marks.htm#CDN

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/philqgbr/enfield.html

http://www.enfieldrifles.ca/main.htm

looks to be a 303..hard to tell as most of the markings have been stamped over with a X.

if the 303 has been stamped over it may not be chambered for a 303 any more. might want to look in to that before you shoot it.

Thanks!
 

Thanks all for the info and the links. Gonna do some research now and get this thing cleaned up so we can shoot it!:)

Cheers
S