SMLE's are SMELLY

TheGoldenCaulk You are SMELY

Certainly wiped the smile of the faces of the enemies of the crown!

TheGoldenCaulk don't offend my most favorite rifle of all!

Sam Iam HEY, it my most favorite rifle

You always smelly? ;)

Me too

I always smle when I see 🌽-y jokes.

@@MRKapcer13 I think it should be called the “smiley.” 😜🤓

I'm feeling a strong 7 with these rifles

Imperial German Stormtrooper Indeed. Hopefully him and BF1 will lead tp reproductions of some experimental WWI guns being made. I'd love to see a Mondragon that doesn't cost 5,000 dollars.

1MAHRASHTRA /SENIOR DIVISION-96 NATIONAL CADET CORPS MUMBAI, INDIA I had used this rifle and loved it Thrilling experience!!

I actually found at a local shop here in Florida a no4 mk1 trials rifle. It does have all the markings and provenance of a trials no 4 mk1. Would it be appropriate to shoot the rifle with service dress and 1908 webbing?

They shouldn't have to be.

Not-So-Forgotten Weapons?

Until someone breaks into your house and that’s the first thing they take

Well, he did dedicate episodes to the Thompson and M1 Carbine, and several M1 Garand variants, so, who knows? He might just make a video about that.

@Superdude70 they probs already have tons for the museums

@@woodland5325 During the wars they weren't keeping specimens for museums. The closest to preserving for posterity would have been home guard use, but that would have been last generation or two rifles that wouldn't have been seen as fit for frontline service.

So true

I hate when people try modify these guns

The sporterized ones are sad to see, but at least they're cheaper

@@TheWhoamaters The No4-Mk1 (Longbranch) I inherited appears to have been factory or armoury sporterized (with the barrel cut behind the bayonet lugs as well as wood removed) before being surplussed. It has an S between the "released for public sale" double arrows, something like this >S< stamped on it. My brother inherited a bucket of spare parts from another relative that added up to another one that wasn't sporterized, but is still in the process of being restored.

You can have one in the UK.

Check video description for the prices the SMLE's were sold at lol

My no.4 was used in the Mau-mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950's by the previous owner.

Mag long

The Lee-Enfields had double the magazine capacity of their contemporaries. As for why magazines were never commonly expanded past 10 before SMG's became common was because of a confluence of factors. The magazine is a bottleneck in production because of how complex it is, and in the case of detachable magazines there's an additional level of precision required to make any given magazine fit any given rifle it's meant to. They also take a surprising amount of expensive material to make (reliable long action springs notably) that multiplies with length instead of linear addition, so why make a magazine greater than a dozen at most (but in most cases a half dozen) when the user is cranking it by hand anyway. Weight is also a consideration, it doesn't sound like much, but when designing a firearm for long-haul carrying small amounts of superfluous mass matter. In some cases form factor was an important consideration, for cavalry for example, and a large magazine would have made handling awkward. All the above being said, ammo usage was probably the largest concern. For a long time there was a hesitation for militaries to adopt manual repeating rifles and kept with single shots even when the sporting market had arguably more advanced options than their respective militaries. Simply put, the mindset was that if a soldier has ammo in the gun they will dump it downrange immediately, often without considering IF there is more ammo to be had for later. Having magazines limited to a handful of cartridges effectively enforced the shots to be slower and used more deliberately. As a real life example, when needle rifles (no magazine just breach loading instead of muzzle loading) were introduced, the first major battle involving them used up that nation's entire year's production capacity of ammo in a single day. That was a problem which wasn't remedied until mechanised ammo production became a thing, but even then resources are a consideration. It's not necessarily who can fire the most shots would win, but who has ammo left to fire the last.

Yeah single shot as they plugged our magazine receivers in New Zealand. I used a lightweight .22 of 'Russian' design which we could do rapid fire with, the action was crap though compared to the Cadet rifle.

@@RamonInNZ I've never tried a Russian receiver, but I remember my first thoughts on using a mauser action that it felt so clunky they must just be badly made.

The MkIII* pattern eliminated the cutoff, and so most of the rifles made during WWI did not have it.

It also had a use in support of the civil powers in that it allowed an extra level of intimidation before it came to firing live rounds over or at a dangerous riot. With the cut off in place and the magazine loaded the command could be given to 'load' which meant that the crown could see and hear the bolts being closed. If live fire were needed the order changed to 'with magazine' at which point the cut off was opened and the bolt cycled.

Pretty sure I used the 22LR version of these in New Zealand when I first joined the Air Cadets in late 1970s for weapon training. We used deactivated 303s for drill practice.

@@RamonInNZ Same here, in the ATC. We had .22 BSA, No 8 and DP 303 to play with. Great days..

Have a look at the AIA rifles manufactured in Australia in the mid 90's. They were basically a modernised version in 7.62x51 and 7.62x39

A lot more Mauser actions were surplused after WW1 & WW2 where the 303s were just returned to stores. Added to that is the 303 was originally a black powder round - rear locking is superior for black powder as it avoids fouling that jams front locking lugs within 10 rounds. Smokeless powder removed that problem and front locking is lighter (and therefore cheaper) for the same strength.

Not an easy question to answer. The SMLE is smoother, and potentially quicker, whereas the K98 is more robust. However, the British rifle is hampered by the .303 ammunition, as there will be a possibility of "rim-lock". The larger magazine should be an advantage, although the Mauser stripper clips are extremely quick to use, probably faster than the LE ones. You can be extremely fast with an K98; in my youth I had no problems competing with others equipped with G-3 semiautos in speedshooting at 200m.

This channel and web site. :)

Forgotten Weapons Holy moly, you make that much money doing this? Doesn't Karl have a day job? I assume InRange makes you less since you have to split it.

Sean Heihn yes they were

They did.

They made a lot more Mk V rifles than Mk VI ones.

Bruce Mason no cash

The P14 was a inferior rifle. Unwieldy and with a smaller magazine. And it used .303.

The No2 was a .22 training rifle and the No3 was the Pattern 1913 Enfield.

I've got No2 . It was No1 built in .22 but used a Long Lee Metford type bolt.

51WCDodge wait so does it have the dust cover on it?