Well I had this old enfield for a while and never got to decosmoing it. Well I did today and found some cool shiat out about it. At first it looked like horrible shellac on the stock. WRONG- it was dried cosmo, it wiped right off with just a little WD-40. Then I noticed it is Parkerized and has a bunch more stamps on it than usual. Upon further inspection, there is remnants of welds on the side of the receiver, right where scope mounts would go. I had an EX SNIPER No1 Mk3 Lithgow for a while and never knew it. I brought it over to a friends place and he is a true firearms expert, and he agreed 100% I have an ex sniper Lithgow, and a plus it isn't import marked! WOO HOOOO!!!!!!! The pink unicorn strikes again.

 

Congrats!

 

Will you keep it as is or are you going to "restore" it back to a sniper Enfield?

nah, it is going to stay exactly the way it is.

note in the second pic you can see one of the welds fairly clear in the upper left side

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r u kidding me the freaking smiley's don't work because it says f uck in it. WTF maks

I got a rifle u can get the comsoline out if u have too much time on ur hands!

thats awesome man, like finding money in your pants pockets awesome!

Eric...... A freakin dog can take a crap on your lawn..... and a pot of gold would appear from it.....

That is a beautiful piece! Congrats on the score!

and u are keep making it worse and worse .... I'm just gonna go, lock myself in a closet and cry

This should be a Marketplace thread.

Darn you and your

Oh Eric, your so cute.

I can't put my finger on it but there is something "off" in that pic??

I am going to dig through and find something else to decosmo tomorrow. Maybe I'll find Stalin's personal rifle...... ROFLMAO.

I will get some pics for you once I get moving around and finish my coffee. I took the entire rifle completely down to parade rest. My bolt tool came in handy, it was so caked with cosmo you could barely move the bolt.... let alone try to fire it. The brass recoil plates are on the forend. The stamping on the stock is:

 

MA LITHGOW

SMLE

MKIII* HV

1943

 

the barrel is a 5 groove and dated 1943

 

I shot the rifle yesterday and was hitting golf balls consistantly at 100 with 1941 Winchester surplus(for some odd reason golf balls were all over my range ), so accuracy is exceptional with this one. It's a dream to shoot.

I posted this on another forum for some info and it's kinda funny. Many people are saying it's nothing just part of the heat treat process, but yet my PM box is full of people offering me a ton of money for it LOL. Kinda makes you wonder.......

I posted this on another forum for some info and it's kinda funny. Many people are saying it's nothing just part of the heat treat process, but yet my PM box is full of people offering me a ton of money for it LOL. Kinda makes you wonder.......

 

Hahaha, I love those posts! It is a piece of crap but I will take it off your hand for a bunch of pennies.