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General Milsurp Weapons => Milsurp Rifles & Carbines => All the rest => Topic started by: Greatguns on February 04, 2021, 02:01:20 PM
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I thought this might interest someone (Jon, LOL) so am posting it. If anyone is interested I would be willing to help facilitate the deal.
Lee Enfield No5 Mk I Jungle Carbine that looks to be complete sans bayonet. http://www.mwguntrader.com/viewad.asp?id=50280690456112907
For those that don't want to click on the link, I added pics here. The KOYLI in the first pic he says stands for Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Having grown up in England, I can at least say, that sounds correct. His price is $600, I would buy it, but Jungle Carbines just aren't...wait for it...my cup of tea. chuckles1
(http://www.mwguntrader.com/cl_upload/0221/04103917198.jpg)
(http://www.mwguntrader.com/cl_upload/0221/04103947173.jpg)
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Pictures aren't working for me.
Years back, I had a couple of jungle carbines. One original Fazakerley and one Santa Fe.
Shot the crap out of the repop and saved the Faz for the safe.
They certainly have the cool factor going for them, but the full sized rifles were better shooters for me.
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The recoil pad does nothing for the recoil rofl Not a bad price. thumb1
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Looks like one of the imports from Malaysia. The 1st KOYLI were one of the units involved in the Malay Emergency and perhaps they ended up supplying some of the arms to the Malaysians. I’ve never seen any LE unit marked like that before and I don’t know what the R means. The only mention of an R in Skennerton’s book is for an R on the barrel knox form indicating rust in the chamber.
If the barrel and bolt match the receiver that’s good, if the foreend and magazine match even better. If it has a good bore and functions in all other ways then that’s a good price these days. It’d be either a Fazakerley, ROF(F); or a BSA-Shirley, M47C.