More likely a series of them.
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Saw a couple of N'4's recently, terrible condition, but around £300 each. Thats the best part of $500.
Paid £5 for my first one, factory refurbished, back in 1957.
Like I said, the pic is just a tease - and the bigger picture is exactly the same picture, just a different size.
That's a Canadian Long Branch No4 Mk I*
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=236363169
Hmmm sounds like a $700 reserve to me, and for a non-matching No4 Mk1 at that.
Geoff - um, that would be part and parcel of the tease then, eh?
Izzat what they call a smelly?
I got a coupla mousers 7x57, 8x57 but I think they are a tad large for mice.
I like it, and added a pistol type sight in front of the receiver for a poor boy's scout rifle.
It makes a good field gun.
Side note, while visiting the PX some months back there were Brit type soldiers ( not sure if they were Brit or Canadian or Aussie) walking about Ft Leavenworth. Numbers of them were buzzing round the gun counter looking at the goods. What hit me (again) was that their country would let them defend the unwashed masses, with their lives, but not buy one of the cowboy style 6 guns they were drooling over.
Never more grateful to be a US citizen, who has 2nd Ammendment rights.
Og - All No4's are nice rifles. If it's in good shape, and fits your price range, get one. I've got several, covering all the major variations, and most of the makers.
I prefer the finish on the Canadians, from an aesthetic perspective.
it seems very much indeed as if the Long Branch rifles are a far nicer fit and finish. I will look harder.
That said, I have one, and it shoots just fine, though I don't shoot it much.
But if you really like the SMLE, and want to shoot 'em a lot - the fodder for the Indian guns can be had cheaper than .303, and is more likely to be reloadable, too. Which means you can also make light loads, reducing some of the shoulder punishment.
It's a FN Bullet-Thru rifle grenade, training edition. Originally it was the Telgren, or telescopic grenade. One launches it with a ball round, no blanks/ballistite rounds needed.
calibr.ucoz.ru/publ/granaty/belgija/granata_ap_telgren_fn/187-1-0-1375
See also Jane's Infantry Weapons 2002, pg 617.
Cheers
[Dude, you are *so* like stealing my post. Of course, it's not like you can't actually *read* the grenade. Still. Rude making a knowledge gloat like that. Shame! -the Armorer]
I do plead being an ignoramus. But I've heard that rifle cry many a time. That was the rifle I used on the feral dogs that threatened my kids. So it has done honorable service since then. Ah, but....