"Lee-Enfield" not "Enfield"

[daniel (australia)]

MJ
Two words can so change the impact of a photograph. What might have been impressive can be lessened...

DMK
Enfield rifling is what we'd now recognise as fairly conventional: square grooves, usually an odd number (originally 5 on the Lee Enfields), of a width roughly equal to the width of the lands. Top right in the pic below for example:

FWIW there were a good number of rifling styles tried in Britain in the late 19th century, and these are but a few examples.

 

[Cosmoline]

Why am I hearing "Rule Britannia" playing when I open this thread?

 

[Gewehr98]

I dunno, Cosmo...

But I can guarantee you won't find any U.S. rifles using the quaint term "Calibre" stamped on their receivers.

 

[MJ]

It's your soap box.


Cheers
MJ

 

[Cosmoline]

Now now. The revolution is over.

Here's how I see the terms:

Mosin = Mosin-Nagant Three Line Rifle

Nagant = Nagant 1895 revolving pistol

Enfield = Any SMLE pattern rifle

Eddystone Enfield = The Enfield-like rifles made in .30'06 for the US during WWI

Springfield = Springfield 03

Garand = US rifle M1 in .30 cal.

etc.

We can pick nits endlessly. For example the K-31 isn't a Schmidt-Rubin. But there's not a lot of point to fussing if everyone knows what's being discussed.

 

[jpwilly]

Here's my Enfield! Oh sorry Lee-Enfield! :banghead: I'm still going to call it an Enfield!

 

[swingset]

Wanna shoot my Enfield?

 

[JohnMcD348]

I call mine Stacey.....

 

[Dr. Peter Venkman]

Lee-Enfield is for fools.

It's true name is "Linear Accelerator Device Operated chiefly by hand and manipulation of a mechanical pulley to mechanically operate a small pin to prick the primer of a loaded and chambered round to thus ignite the powder contained therein within the casing to thus propel a bullet down the rifled bored of the said Linear Accelerator Device at a target designated chiefly by either the variation of the muzzle to the ground in regards to its angle or by the use of such sights to manipulate the bullet's trajectory to a satisifactory point after it has been fired by the Linear Accelerator Device Operated chiefly by hand and manipulation of a mechanical pulley to mechanically operate a small pin to prick the primer of a loaded and chambered round to thus ignite the powder contained therein within the casing to thus propel a bullet down the rifled bored of the said Linear Accelerator Device at a target designated chiefly by either the variation of the muzzle to the ground in regards to its angle or by the use of such sights to manipulate the bullet's trajectory to a satisifactory point Lee-Enfield Rifle."

 

[Killian]

It kinda upsets me when Australians say, "G'day". It's not "G'day". It's "Good Day".

Maybe you would know this. Is the bore rifling in a LEE-ENFIELD Ishapore 2A the same as in a standard Number I Mark III?

 

[pinstripe]

Doesn't matter. People know what you are talking about.

 

[MJ]

Huh!


MJ