303 British designed,īut American manufactured, rifle that in 1926 acquired the nomenclature Rifle These conversions each rather confusingly Of the earlier "Long Lee-Enfields" in their charger-loading Mark I* In April 1916, for conversions of S.M.L.E. Service, or when sold out of service into the commercial world.Ī wartime need for yet more training rifles led to the approval, It should perhaps be borne in mind that such rifles could subsequently haveīy the Parker or Parker-Hale companies, to lengthen their military Shortįor purposes of latter-day identification, RF Short Mk.I in 1907, and approved as the ". Similar to that especially made for the Rifle, The converted rifles were fitted with the previously mentioned II and II* with the introduction of a new sytem of nomenclature These conversions were effected using the The approval for service of the first conversion of the S.M.L.E. Including Service Rifle Target shooting at BISLEY CAMP RANGES Post Rifle and the EM2 Bulldog precursor to the current SA-80 #Leer model number 772176 archive#VIEW DOCUMENTARY & TRAINING ARCHIVE FILM OF Of successful major production of such barrelling. Sleeving work was largely contracted to the Parker company, themselves the pioneers 303"CF units, mainly parented by obsolete rifles or those condemnedįor Service full-bore use, and sleeved with a. 303" barrels, at the commencement of the First World War, required alternative means for theįrom 1915 these converted rifles' barrels were bored The earliest conversions were also newly made "small-bore"īarrels, but the need to not interfere with vital production of. The barrels of these later marks of No.2 rifle were usually newly made solid Rifles were built from scratch, particularly in Australia and commercially. 303 inch calibre, although some late mark No.2 Short, Magazine Lee-Enfield ( S.M.L.E.) originally in.
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