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Someone mentioned when I got my Jungle Carbine that it was OK to work backwards... and I guess that's what I'm doing
The No4 Mk2 (with the two stage trigger). Manufactured to keep some of the folks in England employed at the time. The bayonet doesn't match, but everything else does. This rifle is almost too cherry to shoot... yeah right I've already got a hundred rounds on the way
I'm not sure what the cartouches in the last pic designate...
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You see in this world there are two kinds of people my friend, those with loaded guns... and those who dig. You dig.
The cartouches in the last pic state DP or Dan's purpose. Good thing My name is Dan, I'll PM you where to send it and I'll even pay shipping!
Beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful rifle!!!!
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"Fast is fine, But accuracy is everything" Wyatt Earp
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That was probably one of the ones sold in the wrap, mine still is in the wrap, but most got opened up . The highest form of S.M.L.E.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
martin08 wrote:They don't come much nicer. How much does a gun like that run?
That was a tough one to nail down, Martin. I paid $675 plus that pre-communisim Chinese flag I told him I would throw in because I offered his less than he was asking... and because he had given me a very good price on that No5 Mk1 and I don't collect millitaria. He does.
I've seen them asking 1300 for these but not getting it (as far as I followed the auction). And I've seen closed auctions for these getting 595, but that was a couple years ago when it seems more were being sold. And he didn't even want to give me a price until we hit the LGS, whom we are both friends with. The owner of the LGS said he would have listed it for 750 had he given it to him on consignment. I think I did OK and he did OK. I know he paid over 500 for it, but I don't know how long ago.
You see in this world there are two kinds of people my friend, those with loaded guns... and those who dig. You dig.
You are doing a good clean up job of the best of the best Pac. I saw this one with tht flag pic but it is even prettier with these pics, Grat figuring on the stock and so clean. SWEET How you gonna feed all these new babies?
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
When they originally hit the market in '95 they sold for $250-$300 in the wrap, a little less for the very clean ones out of it. I don't recall there being around very long, after I bought mine I never saw another one in the gun shop. They were an expensive Enfield at a time when you could get a nice No1 or No4 issued rifle for under $100.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
martin08 wrote:They don't come much nicer. How much does a gun like that run?
That was a tough one to nail down, Martin. I paid $675 plus that pre-communisim Chinese flag I told him I would throw in because I offered his less than he was asking... and because he had given me a very good price on that No5 Mk1 and I don't collect millitaria. He does.
I've seen them asking 1300 for these but not getting it (as far as I followed the auction). And I've seen closed auctions for these getting 595, but that was a couple years ago when it seems more were being sold. And he didn't even want to give me a price until we hit the LGS, whom we are both friends with. The owner of the LGS said he would have listed it for 750 had he given it to him on consignment. I think I did OK and he did OK. I know he paid over 500 for it, but I don't know how long ago.
looks great, premium guns just cost a little more
"Fast is fine, But accuracy is everything" Wyatt Earp
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
Adolph Hitler – 1933
That's a very nice Enfield. Nothing wrong with working backwards. Sounds like something I would say
There are a few of us around here, that think alike. Great score there.
I thought the DP enfields were just the No.1s. They would have a red stripe around the forestock and then maybe be stamped DP. I think maybe SOG was selling them for a while. Or maybe it was century. I'm not sure if there was a DP No. 4 or not
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
I've already got a hundred rounds on the way 
looks good
that is one fine looking rifle!
