wtk: british sporting SMLE rifles

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Has anyone handled or owned a early factory or custom SMLE sporting rifle of any type? I saw a little info on these in rifle and handloader mags but thats all. Any info would be most helpful pictures would be amazingly helpful.


P.S. this is what happens when you can't sleep and you have a copy of cartriges of the world ( british section 375 2 1/2" nitro)
 
You sould be able to find the book at most chain stores or at a gunshow.
I've seen them at barnes and nosale and borders.
 
There were commercial No1 actions dating back to the early Long Lee, even Lee Metfords for that matter.

I've handled a No1MKIII commercial gun. Nothing on the wrist, which gave it away and the entire rifle was rust blued instead of suncorite painted. Very nice gun, btw but seller wasn't interested in losing it!
 
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thank you very much for the exellent photo's. This will help with my most current project I'm putting together. I hope your friend enjoys that fine rifle. Can you discribe the saftey to me?
 
Mk. VII-

Is that first rifle built on a Lee-Metford action? Is that why it has a safety on the cocking piece?

Nice rifles!

Not that it's an early style like W.D.M. Bell or John Alfred Jordan would have used, but Rachel Blakely as Marguerite Krux on the TV series, "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World" uses a SMLE sporter in some episodes, mainly later ones. Alas, it has a Monte Carlo stock not appropriate to the 1920-period of the show, and I think the barrel length suggests that it's built on a Jungle Carbine action. If you see the episode, "Trophies", in which the bad guy kidnaps the jungle babe Veronica, he also has an SMLE sporter, but it seems to be just a sporterized SMLE Mk. III stock. (That series was filmed in Australia, which probably explains some of the guns used in it. It runs on some local channels, and on TNT at 6:00AM, Central Std. Time.)

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Hello mates!

I am not sure if you Brits can order from Australia, or if your British laws are the same.
But it looks like you guys may like these new rifles.


They take AK-47 magazines and M14 mags as well:

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Here is their web page:
www.lawranceordnance.com

I thought you all may be interested.
By the way, anyone know of some good clay pigeon ranges in Scotland? I may be going over there to trace my family and I would like to do some shooting while I am there
 
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