Lil help with ENFIELD info

[jeeptim]

Today i got an Enfield I know NOTHING about them well a lil.
This is in really nice shape has a short barrel and on the barrel it reads.

Santa Fe jungle carbine MK1 MD 12011
Golden state arms corp Pasadena calf.
front bolt side of bolt
u
1347
peep sight has a Lyman gauge.
same side on rear and above trigger housing
C.R. or G.R. with a stamp above
then ENFIELD
1914
S?LE
III
bottom of trigger guard an arrow
mag well SSA
bolt 1387
action reads england
Ita a nice lil gun very minor rust on the action nice and tight barell looks good bore good wood really good missing the mag and front sight post and maybe a flash unit nothing on the end of the barrel.
only paid $100 for it and befor i start cleaning it up would like to know what i have looks like a nicely reworked mil surp.
Any info would be good.
Thanx

 

[Curator]

Santa Fe sporters have a bit of a following among collecters. Do a search on this site as well as http://parallaxscurioandrelicfirearmsforums.yuku.com/
and
http://www.milsurps.com/

 

[madcratebuilder]

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What Curator said. Some collectors well scoff these Golden State rifles but they are all part of the LE history. Sounds like you have a No1 Enfield that's cut down to resemble a No5 rifle.

Here's a No1 to No5 conversion from a mud hut in the Khyber Pass region.

 

[shinz]

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What Curator said. Some collectors well scoff these Golden State rifles but they are all part of the LE history. Sounds like you have a No1 Enfield that's cut down to resemble a No5 rifle.

Here's a No1 to No5 conversion from a mud hut in the Khyber Pass region.

Now thats an interesting looking wee beasty & I'm picking it has an interesting history too. What does it shoot like?
Steve.

 

[Imperial Guardsman]

I have a No.4 Mk.1/2 that was put into a jungle carbine stock (I have to think os, as it is not only cut down but has that old recoil pad on it). It sounds like people did a lot of things with their Enfields.

 

[RugerMcMarlin]

I'll tell you what you got a great deal! An original Mk5 is getting hard to find,
and you wont get to hold one for $100.! The orig,s also had holes drilled in the action in a misguided attemp to make it lighter. all they did is make the action flimsey. Mine also had a narrow rubber strip on the butt plate, about an inch wide and four inches long, when you shot it, it felt like you got hit on the shoulder with the back of an axe!

Madcratebuilder is right, protective wings on rear sight and bolt head shape, spell No.1 MkIII to me.

 

[shinz]

Mine also had a narrow rubber strip on the butt plate, about an inch wide and four inches long, when you shot it, it felt like you got hit on the shoulder with the back of an axe!

Then you'll understand why I felt the need to do something like thishttp://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=591979 to mine.
Steve.

 

[RugerMcMarlin]

That's shear genius, my fix was to sell mine, I like your fix way better. I'd hunt with that now!

 

[BrocLuno]

Santa Fe's are fun and there are parts out there. They offered a short 5 round mag for legal hunting, but I guess used ones are getting pricey now? Full 10 rounders are available from Apex Supply in Colorado for around $25

 

[Limey46]

Yup, what you have is a Number 1 Mark III SMLE (Short Magazine Lee- Enfield) made at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock in 1914, then cut down and converted sometime in the late '50s or early '60s by Golden State Arms in Pasadena, California. It never had a Jungle Carbine-style flash hider in either configuration; Golden State soldered a standard hunting-rifle-style front sight to the shortened barrel. Does your gun have ventilation slots cut out on either side of the forend? Mine did. The GR stamp on your gun means George Rex -- King George V, the reigning monarch in England in 1914.

 

[BrocLuno]

Picture would be nice?