Sorry Tom, I was only joking. You might find things like that around but it would take more than a different magazine to actually chamber and fire them, they'd need to be a fully converted replica. (.17 fired down a .30, .45 or .50 barrel is like throwing a banana down a bowling alley...even with some sort of sabot)
So I had a sudden sense of dread on the first shot, as it sounded nearly like a hangfire from some of the other rifles you've shot (with the older ammo) and then realized that it was just that quiet upon seeing the target. I'm rather impressed at how quiet it is.
Hmmm, didn't notice a ping when you were out. I imagine it's particularly effective at combat since the Germans wouldn't know to rush you. I kid of course.
Interesting how it was so quiet that the Chap didn't even find it necessary to put those earplugs in. Can't say I'm that surprised, though, it sounds like it's suppressed almost.
I fired lots of rounds as a Canadian army cadet with Lee Enfield No.7 rifles, but we did not have a detachable magazine on ours, each round had to be fed manually by hand.
I used to work on these when I was in the Canadian army as a 421. A friend still has some parts for these. Some of the bores tended to ring forward of the breech. Overall a great 22.
I was amazed just how quiet it was. I was expecting it to sound more like a pistol firing but no, it was almost like an airgun. I only signed uo for the loud bangs.
Lovely rifles! I have (and had) a near complete Lee Enfield .22 trainer collection, with .22 Pattern 14 Short Rifle No1, .22 Pattern 14 Short Rifle No2, No2 Mk IV and IV* (British, Indian and Australian), Short Naval .22 trainer, Long Lee Enfield conversion by Parker, No7, No8, No9, C No7 (SUPERB!) as well as the War Office Miniatures and the 297/230 and 310 Martini Cadet rifles. Love 'em! I also had a very extensive German .22 training rifle collection, but that is another story best told over Schnapps and bratwurst :)
This is one of my dream guns as well. I have been a fan of the Enfield since I purchased a No1 Mk4 back when I was in the Police Academy in 1986. But the only one I've been able to locate here in the Colonies is way outside my price range. I love the old 22lr training rifles. And I currently have a Mossberg 46MB. Thank you for introducing me to this particular rifle.
Nice! The No. 7’s that we shot in Cadets didn’t have a 5 round magazine, just a No. 4 magazine with the spring removed and acted as a catch pan for the spent casings. The rounds were loaded individually by hand into the chamber and you closed the bold, fired, opened the bolt and the spent casing dropped. When finished, you removed the magazine and dumped out the brass. They sure were fun to shoot.
Awesome. I fired something similar in air-cadets (raf), but it was only single shot, and very front heavy for a 13 year old (even from prone).Haven't shot since then, but watching this has brought back that smell. Thanks.
Shot something similar as a 14 year old air cadet at RAF lyneham in the seventies. During the rest of that summer camp I progressed onto the 303 & got my air cadet marksman badge I was surprised that I could shoot that straight to be honest, as the rifle was bloomin heavy for a nipper The 3 best shots moved onto the L1A1 into an attempt at the RAF marksman badge. Our weapons instructor had a nice little cache to hand, including large auto pistols & the odd sterling SMG !
Very nice. I understand how you feel about this opportunity. my first rifle was a .22 Mossberg bolt action, held seventeen in the tube under the barrel. cool memories.
I've actually got a chance to shoot an Indian .303 to .22 lr conversion rifle.the extractor wasn't working on some of them, had no mag,and we (a group students{ncc}) had to handfeed it.maybe it was a lee en-field converted into .22. The funny thing is I was the one to get the defective extractor one, short the first round and kept cycling the bolt back and forth hoping the case would eject while everyone finished firing .I had to ask the supervisor for a solution... he suggested "extract it with your finger". I was still able to get into next round of competition.
Brings back memories! The air cadet corps at my school had one in the armory - along with a mixed bag of single shot rifles. Unfortunately only senior boys were allowed to use the magazine. AFAICR I only ever got to use it loading one round at a time, BTW the single shot rifles included a Martini action Cogswell and Harrison with an octagonal barrel and chambered down from 22 hornet. Now that is a rifle I would have loved to own.
I used to shoot a .22 Lee Enfield No.8 when I was in the ATC. I remember it being very heavy for it's size. We used to shoot at the local TA barracks, on their 25m range.
Congratulations on your find! I have a #2, Mark4 Parker Hale conversion of a 1916 Sht.LE III from the LSA factory that spent some time with the RUC before finding its way to Texas. Unfortunately, all my magazine does is catch spent casings. Fun little rifle, though I'm not sure how accurate its mid mounted adjustable 'rear' sight is, it's marked from 2(00) through 20(00) meters with 25 yard steps. At about the 150 meter mark is where bullets normally drop into place on the 30 yard range. I've also been gifted with the proper bayonet for the rifle, though it does seem a bit out of place on the front of a .22.
I have the Canadian number 7. The Canadian version is a single shot, no 5 round magazine. Interestingly, the "303" magazine is empty and the rounds fall in it when ejecting - it is also removable. I inherited the rifle with the box, sling, and cleaning kit. It has the long range sights as well. I believe ours were used by cadets and this one had a note from the weapons tech stating what work he had done to it. Nice to see the RAF version.
Great video my Friend , the cost of those rifles has increase so much , in Canada for example one of those .22 lee is going for $ 1800 canadian dollars as of now Nov , 2023 ( we are talking about one shot magazine rifle )
We had them in Air Cadets in Canada too. I understand the Army and Navy Cadets had them too. Most were the single shot ones, but we did have the repeaters in my Squadron, but we were required to single load them on the indoor range. Accuracy was like all Lee-Enfield Rifles some were excellent and were put aside for the rifle team, most were adequate and used for general training and some were awful, these were deactivated and used by the drill squad. I have a USA Mossberg 22 training rifle.
A very rare variant of the Enfield indeed. Only 2,500 of these "repeaters" were manufactured, and I am also very fortunate to also own one thanks to very generous uncle who used to collect Enfields back in the day. I believe that this variant was mostly used by the Royal Air Force.
My LE .22 is on a 1914 receiver, is marked SHT .22 IV*. It showed up at a local shop and I grabbed it. It has a BSA barrel, the rear volley sight and the disk of the front volley sight. Good job getting your No. 7! Here in New Hampshire USA we have no problems buying what we want, how is it in Switzerland?
I was extremely lucky and we had a range at my school and tuesday lunch times you could go and shoot. Loved shooting the number 8 but I've never wanted one because breach loading isn't fun (I may have been spoiled by the .22 converted l95A2). If I ever were to buy a gun this is the most tempting one of the lot
We also had a range in my school. We had 4 single shot .22 lee Enfields and about 12 number 4 drill rifles for the cadets to train with. This was between 1974 and 1979 at The Liverpool Collegiate school Liverpool UK.
I learnt to shoot on one of those in 1966 at the RAF waterbeach. I was at school at the time and the RAF had a gun club we could join after school hours.
Nice! I enjoyed the .22, the L98A1 Cadet GP Rifle and the 7.65mm Target Rifle in the Army Cadets. The later left a bruise after several weekends of shooting for the Regional Shooting Team and would love to start again. I really want to get a Lee Enfield MKIII SMLE.
By 1:18 in, I have pretty much watched this with a scrunched up face and have muttered 'huh" numerous times already.. I had no idea about .22 trainers and now have an urgent desire for one. Merry Christmas Bloke!
your school had a similar selections of rifles as the air cadet SQN that I belonged to. even the "couple of Martini Henrys and an Anschutz". good times :)
I remember the first time I used a .22 conversion sleeve in the L1A1 in the 90s. 10 of where ready to shoot, told to shoot and then spent next 5 min pissing ourselves with laughter after the first shot.
Here in Australia there's the No.2 rifle (SMLE No. 1 action/body) but once the SMLE No. 3/3* was adopted they primary used conversion kits instead. Same thing was done with the FN commonly referred to as the SLR) However as these kits generally were used by schools for cadets they are not too easy to acquire these days...
I remember the 22 conversion kits for the SLR when I was in Junior Soldiers company 85-86 , then moving onto 7.62mm straight after. Felt the power 💥difference alright lol 😄👍🏻
Used to shoot the single shot version of these at my school too but with ring sights. Great fun to shoot and quite accurate. Not sure if that school has its armoury any more.
When I was in Sea Cadets, we would use a single shot .22 Lees. I think they were No.9s. But they were hell to use. They didn't have any ramp or anything for the cartridge, so you just had to shove it straight into the chamber. Normally that shouldn't be a problem, but we only used the .22s for Biathlons and it was a choice between fumbling .22s and losing time, or freezing your bare hands in -30C.
I had an SMLE .22 that had been smooth bored, I found a stash of .22 shot cartridges and had hours of fun in the back garden with it. Easily take down a small knat with it.
I went to an open day at my older brothers Army Cadets back in the early seventies. I shot a similar rifle to that and have always wondered what it was.
I just inherited a 1907 NO.1 from my uncle in .22 cal. Where they made as .22 or converted. Don't know much about them. I have the bayonet also. freaking cool.
tony Wyatt Wow! What a coincidence! I did my Part 1 & Part 2 for 1st Cadet Battalion Queens Royal Regiment there at Mitcham Barracks, probably in around 1959 ish...plus all my Bren training... Also shot .22 there although based at Selhurst Grammar where we also had our own small bore range...
I've never even heard of that model. That's a vary cool find. If the tension on the ejector is adjustable perhaps it is set too tight for the magazine to come out the top as intended?
That's a really cool rifle. The sound it makes is mildly comedic. Almost like an air-nailer or staple gun. Still, looks like a fun thing to blast away at tin cans with though.
My father converted his home guard Enfield to 22 after ww2..sleved the barrel with a 22 air rifle barrel. Never shot it bet he swore it worked....was disposed of in 63.
We tend to get a lot of the German .22 training rifles from the second world war here in the States. I suppose the GI's just thought they were nifty and brought them back.
.22 martini's! What! I wish I could find one of those in the states. I would throw my wallet at them and buy it. Havent seen one of these rifles in a while. My father owned one but it just was the single shot and had the box mag empty I guess to hold your shells or what not. He got his mint and I think never shot or used given the condition back in the good ol days when no one cared about these rifles and he got it for a steal practically. I find it funny I mentioned to you last oh do you do anything else besides k series rifles and do you have .22's and behold you do a .22 that is a enfield. Boy do you deliver on content haha.
+Jimmy M They're out there; look for BSA target rifles. I ran into a guy on a range in central Virginia that had one with excellent target peep sights. We were hitting an 8" steel ram target at 100 yards off hand standing. A really fun rifle!
simonferrer you can bet that if I see one I'm putting money down on one. Just never saw one before. Hell I've never seen a full size martini in my area.
Back in the 1990s when Navy Arms still had a retail store in Ridgefield, New Jersey they kept getting lots of different .22 martinis along with the flodd of surplus arms that was was coming into the U.S. then.. The condition of the Martinis was fair to poor but they were still shooters. I got a BSA model 10 military trainer with Parker Hale sights and a Belgium made Martini rook rifle in .22 with a nice octagon barrel. They also had many full size Martini Henry's rebarreled to .22 lr that I regret not having bought. Since Navy Arms was an importer, my belief was that these rifles were coming out of either the U.K or more likely South Africa.
Probably from here in South Africa as school shooting with 22`s was stopped.Many South African schools had 25 yd ranges. Always wondered what happened to mine,the one I used 45 years ago!
I find that magazine within a magazine highly amusing for some reason
Chlorate insert Inception reference
Actually, construction of those mags was contracted out to Russian dollmakers. I have a .17hmr conversion of a Boys AT rifle.......
Steve Steves that sounds perfect do they do others I'd love a 17 hmr Mauser 98 or a de lile carbine
Sorry Tom, I was only joking. You might find things like that around but it would take more than a different magazine to actually chamber and fire them, they'd need to be a fully converted replica. (.17 fired down a .30, .45 or .50 barrel is like throwing a banana down a bowling alley...even with some sort of sabot)
They should make an adapter that fits inside for .22 Short, and an adapter that fits inside that adapter for 6mm Flobert.
I've always wanted a .22 trainer but don't care for single shot ones. This is a fantastic buy!
So I had a sudden sense of dread on the first shot, as it sounded nearly like a hangfire from some of the other rifles you've shot (with the older ammo) and then realized that it was just that quiet upon seeing the target. I'm rather impressed at how quiet it is.
Yeah, the round hitting the paper sounds louder than the gun firing.
***** ooooh, i can't wait
Hmmm, didn't notice a ping when you were out. I imagine it's particularly effective at combat since the Germans wouldn't know to rush you.
I kid of course.
You and the Chap find some of the weirdest, yet coolest rifles out there. Love it.
Interesting how it was so quiet that the Chap didn't even find it necessary to put those earplugs in. Can't say I'm that surprised, though, it sounds like it's suppressed almost.
I fired lots of rounds as a Canadian army cadet with Lee Enfield No.7 rifles, but we did not have a detachable magazine on ours, each round had to be fed manually by hand.
I used to work on these when I was in the Canadian army as a 421. A friend still has some parts for these. Some of the bores tended to ring forward of the breech. Overall a great 22.
A nice rifle for the Blokette to grow into.
I was amazed just how quiet it was. I was expecting it to sound more like a pistol firing but no, it was almost like an airgun. I only signed uo for the loud bangs.
It's so strange to watch the hammer drop and such a tiny noise comes out compared to the .303, very cool!
I am amazed at how quiet that was, I have never seen a No 7 being fired this was v interesting thank you!
I would love to have one of these for my son! Thanks for your videos, Bloke and Chap.
Luck you!I wish i bought an Australian Lee Enfield #1 MKIII .22LR trainer back in the 90s.
Lovely rifles! I have (and had) a near complete Lee Enfield .22 trainer collection, with .22 Pattern 14 Short Rifle No1, .22 Pattern 14 Short Rifle No2, No2 Mk IV and IV* (British, Indian and Australian), Short Naval .22 trainer, Long Lee Enfield conversion by Parker, No7, No8, No9, C No7 (SUPERB!) as well as the War Office Miniatures and the 297/230 and 310 Martini Cadet rifles. Love 'em!
I also had a very extensive German .22 training rifle collection, but that is another story best told over Schnapps and bratwurst :)
This is one of my dream guns as well. I have been a fan of the Enfield since I purchased a No1 Mk4 back when I was in the Police Academy in 1986. But the only one I've been able to locate here in the Colonies is way outside my price range. I love the old 22lr training rifles. And I currently have a Mossberg 46MB. Thank you for introducing me to this particular rifle.
Nice! The No. 7’s that we shot in Cadets didn’t have a 5 round magazine, just a No. 4 magazine with the spring removed and acted as a catch pan for the spent casings. The rounds were loaded individually by hand into the chamber and you closed the bold, fired, opened the bolt and the spent casing dropped. When finished, you removed the magazine and dumped out the brass. They sure were fun to shoot.
Those will likely have been No.9's then - did they have a full-length bolt or a shortened one like on my rifle there?
Awesome. I fired something similar in air-cadets (raf), but it was only single shot, and very front heavy for a 13 year old (even from prone).Haven't shot since then, but watching this has brought back that smell. Thanks.
Yep, fired No.8 myself in the ATC. Fucking awful thing to load :D We had a Martini in the gun cupboard that got used on rare occasions too.
Shot something similar as a 14 year old air cadet at RAF lyneham in the seventies.
During the rest of that summer camp I progressed onto the 303 & got my air cadet marksman badge
I was surprised that I could shoot that straight to be honest, as the rifle was bloomin heavy for a nipper
The 3 best shots moved onto the L1A1 into an attempt at the RAF marksman badge.
Our weapons instructor had a nice little cache to hand, including large auto pistols & the odd sterling SMG !
Very nice. I understand how you feel about this opportunity. my first rifle was a .22 Mossberg bolt action, held seventeen in the tube under the barrel. cool memories.
I've actually got a chance to shoot an Indian .303 to .22 lr conversion rifle.the extractor wasn't working on some of them, had no mag,and we (a group students{ncc}) had to handfeed it.maybe it was a lee en-field converted into .22.
The funny thing is I was the one to get the defective extractor one, short the first round and kept cycling the bolt back and forth hoping the case would eject while everyone finished firing .I had to ask the supervisor for a solution... he suggested "extract it with your finger". I was still able to get into next round of competition.
Brings back memories! The air cadet corps at my school had one in the armory - along with a mixed bag of single shot rifles. Unfortunately only senior boys were allowed to use the magazine. AFAICR I only ever got to use it loading one round at a time,
BTW the single shot rifles included a Martini action Cogswell and Harrison with an octagonal barrel and chambered down from 22 hornet. Now that is a rifle I would have loved to own.
Beautiful rifle,,,, I have a NO. 7 and a NO. 4 fantastic trainers…..
What an incredible find.Always good to share our toys too.
That got to be one of the coolest rifles possible for beginner shooter.
I used to shoot a .22 Lee Enfield No.8 when I was in the ATC. I remember it being very heavy for it's size. We used to shoot at the local TA barracks, on their 25m range.
Congratulations on your find!
I have a #2, Mark4 Parker Hale conversion of a 1916 Sht.LE III from the LSA factory that spent some time with the RUC before finding its way to Texas. Unfortunately, all my magazine does is catch spent casings.
Fun little rifle, though I'm not sure how accurate its mid mounted adjustable 'rear' sight is, it's marked from 2(00) through 20(00) meters with 25 yard steps. At about the 150 meter mark is where bullets normally drop into place on the 30 yard range. I've also been gifted with the proper bayonet for the rifle, though it does seem a bit out of place on the front of a .22.
great video! what an awesome find
can't believe how quiet that thing is
Never ever seen one in Canada. Nice smallbore rifle with history.
I have the Canadian number 7. The Canadian version is a single shot, no 5 round magazine. Interestingly, the "303" magazine is empty and the rounds fall in it when ejecting - it is also removable. I inherited the rifle with the box, sling, and cleaning kit. It has the long range sights as well. I believe ours were used by cadets and this one had a note from the weapons tech stating what work he had done to it. Nice to see the RAF version.
Sounds rather more like a No.2 Mk.IV than a CNo.7
Great video my Friend , the cost of those rifles has increase so much , in Canada for example one of those .22 lee is going for $ 1800 canadian dollars as of now Nov , 2023 ( we are talking about one shot magazine rifle )
We had them in Air Cadets in Canada too. I understand the Army and Navy Cadets had them too. Most were the single shot ones, but we did have the repeaters in my Squadron, but we were required to single load them on the indoor range. Accuracy was like all Lee-Enfield Rifles some were excellent and were put aside for the rifle team, most were adequate and used for general training and some were awful, these were deactivated and used by the drill squad.
I have a USA Mossberg 22 training rifle.
shoots minute of squirrel
Minute of commie racoon
LOL
I was an air cadet in Ontario Canada and we had the single shot variety of this weapon. a lot of fun on the range.
A very rare variant of the Enfield indeed. Only 2,500 of these "repeaters" were manufactured, and I am also very fortunate to also own one thanks to very generous uncle who used to collect Enfields back in the day. I believe that this variant was mostly used by the Royal Air Force.
My LE .22 is on a 1914 receiver, is marked SHT .22 IV*. It showed up at a local shop and I grabbed it. It has a BSA barrel, the rear volley sight and the disk of the front volley sight. Good job getting your No. 7! Here in New Hampshire USA we have no problems buying what we want, how is it in Switzerland?
I was extremely lucky and we had a range at my school and tuesday lunch times you could go and shoot. Loved shooting the number 8 but I've never wanted one because breach loading isn't fun (I may have been spoiled by the .22 converted l95A2). If I ever were to buy a gun this is the most tempting one of the lot
We also had a range in my school. We had 4 single shot .22 lee Enfields and about 12 number 4 drill rifles for the cadets to train with. This was between 1974 and 1979 at The Liverpool Collegiate school Liverpool UK.
I learnt to shoot on one of those in 1966 at the RAF waterbeach. I was at school at the time and the RAF had a gun club we could join after school hours.
I have one of these in my collection very well made and fun to shoot.
Nice! I enjoyed the .22, the L98A1 Cadet GP Rifle and the 7.65mm Target Rifle in the Army Cadets. The later left a bruise after several weekends of shooting for the Regional Shooting Team and would love to start again. I really want to get a Lee Enfield MKIII SMLE.
That's a bucket list rifle for me. Thank you for sharing.
My uncle has just picked one of these up. Can't wait to get a shot with it.
I'm so envious.. I want one of these badly, but the last I saw in the UK was around £2000.
We had several of these when I was in the Cadets in the Trois Rivieres Regiment, Quebec Canada.
By 1:18 in, I have pretty much watched this with a scrunched up face and have muttered 'huh" numerous times already.. I had no idea about .22 trainers and now have an urgent desire for one. Merry Christmas Bloke!
your school had a similar selections of rifles as the air cadet SQN that I belonged to.
even the "couple of Martini Henrys and an Anschutz".
good times :)
I remember the first time I used a .22 conversion sleeve in the L1A1 in the 90s. 10 of where ready to shoot, told to shoot and then spent next 5 min pissing ourselves with laughter after the first shot.
That looks like a BLAST! Thanks for sharing it with us. Straight from the U.S.A.
Here in Australia there's the No.2 rifle (SMLE No. 1 action/body) but once the SMLE No. 3/3* was adopted they primary used conversion kits instead. Same thing was done with the FN commonly referred to as the SLR) However as these kits generally were used by schools for cadets they are not too easy to acquire these days...
Just bought one in the UK for a very good price - taking her out tomorrow!
You should do the mad minute with it. I would love you find one of them. So cool
I remember the 22 conversion kits for the SLR when I was in Junior Soldiers company 85-86 , then moving onto 7.62mm straight after. Felt the power 💥difference alright lol 😄👍🏻
Used to shoot the single shot version of these at my school too but with ring sights. Great fun to shoot and quite accurate. Not sure if that school has its armoury any more.
Enfields are great to leave in the car-truck. Jungle carbine is a great handy rifle.
Very nice! That's a tough item to find anywhere.
I really wish this was made and sold today, it could be a commercial success
Wow i miss shooting the No.8's they were fun guns.
Shot a lot with No.8 cadet rifles, great little rifles shame no magazine. Shot straight as an arrow!
ive used a No.8 before. quite nice to use
And now... No. 1 ... The Larch.
When I was in Sea Cadets, we would use a single shot .22 Lees. I think they were No.9s. But they were hell to use. They didn't have any ramp or anything for the cartridge, so you just had to shove it straight into the chamber. Normally that shouldn't be a problem, but we only used the .22s for Biathlons and it was a choice between fumbling .22s and losing time, or freezing your bare hands in -30C.
I had an SMLE .22 that had been smooth bored, I found a stash of .22 shot cartridges and had hours of fun in the back garden with it. Easily take down a small knat with it.
I went to an open day at my older brothers Army Cadets back in the early seventies. I shot a similar rifle to that and have always wondered what it was.
I just inherited a 1907 NO.1 from my uncle in .22 cal. Where they made as .22 or converted. Don't know much about them. I have the bayonet also. freaking cool.
Memories 1958 A T C.Mitcham.Croydon.but i liked the Bren,so much noise.(no H&S ear mufflers.merry Xmas to you both.
tony Wyatt Wow! What a coincidence! I did my Part 1 & Part 2 for 1st Cadet Battalion Queens Royal Regiment there at Mitcham Barracks, probably in around 1959 ish...plus all my Bren training... Also shot .22 there although based at Selhurst Grammar where we also had our own small bore range...
I've never even heard of that model. That's a vary cool find. If the tension on the ejector is adjustable perhaps it is set too tight for the magazine to come out the top as intended?
Very cool rifle.
I recall the Enfield trainers from Air Cadets back in the mid 60's......
Huh. I worked at a Sea Cadet training center in Canada for years and we had racks of the C No. 7s. Those were single shot rifles though.
From the audio picked up by the camera, it sounds like the striker is making more noise than the shot.
I fired the Mk8, loved it
1:12 Yo Dawg we heard how much you like magazines, so we put a magazine inside your magazine.
That's a really cool rifle. The sound it makes is mildly comedic. Almost like an air-nailer or staple gun. Still, looks like a fun thing to blast away at tin cans with though.
You are welcome to do a video of my .22 No5 if you want, if you are travelling through France someday. :-)
To my considerable sorrow I had the chance to buy a No 8 and ....didn't!
Very nice
22lr Enfield?! I need! How rare are these? Sadly, I barely afford a used Savage 22
we didn't have shooting ranges at school but we would have shooting shows where they would come to the school and do shooting demastrations
Very nice! What's with the green tag thingy dangling from the bottom of the forestock?
Very cool
My father converted his home guard Enfield to 22 after ww2..sleved the barrel with a 22 air rifle barrel. Never shot it bet he swore it worked....was disposed of in 63.
Well that is pretty neato!
We tend to get a lot of the German .22 training rifles from the second world war here in the States. I suppose the GI's just thought they were nifty and brought them back.
Also it's a lot easier to cart off.
Neat rifle.
I adore this rifle, unlikely to ever own one, so what is the closest commercial rifle?
Sorry, there isn't one :)
Just found your channel, love the lee enfield stuff :) are you in the uk ?
I was JUST bidding on one of these on proxibid... did you perhaps nab my lovely rifle? ;)
I have a no7 training rifle, but not with that magazine unfortunately
It's missing its magazine? Good luck finding a replacement...
his group was vertically spread because he wasn't shooting at the same point in his breathing cycle, and left because he snaps at the trigger.
Still used in India by the NCC, I used it in the training.
Magazine was chambers for .303, so we have to load it manually before firing it.
.22 martini's! What! I wish I could find one of those in the states. I would throw my wallet at them and buy it. Havent seen one of these rifles in a while. My father owned one but it just was the single shot and had the box mag empty I guess to hold your shells or what not. He got his mint and I think never shot or used given the condition back in the good ol days when no one cared about these rifles and he got it for a steal practically. I find it funny I mentioned to you last oh do you do anything else besides k series rifles and do you have .22's and behold you do a .22 that is a enfield. Boy do you deliver on content haha.
+Jimmy M They're out there; look for BSA target rifles. I ran into a guy on a range in central Virginia that had one with excellent target peep sights. We were hitting an 8" steel ram target at 100 yards off hand standing. A really fun rifle!
simonferrer you can bet that if I see one I'm putting money down on one. Just never saw one before. Hell I've never seen a full size martini in my area.
Back in the 1990s when Navy Arms still had a retail store in Ridgefield, New Jersey they kept getting lots of different .22 martinis along with the flodd of surplus arms that was was coming into the U.S. then.. The condition of the Martinis was fair to poor but they were still shooters. I got a BSA model 10 military trainer with Parker Hale sights and a Belgium made Martini rook rifle in .22 with a nice octagon barrel. They also had many full size Martini Henry's rebarreled to .22 lr that I regret not having bought. Since Navy Arms was an importer, my belief was that these rifles were coming out of either the U.K or more likely South Africa.
Probably from here in South Africa as school shooting with 22`s was stopped.Many South African schools had 25 yd ranges. Always wondered what happened to mine,the one I used 45 years ago!
Loads used in most clubs over here.. I have a mk 2 lightweight barrel one.. Few friends own mk 3's and 5..hope you find one..
Nice!
This school that you went to... was it by chance the Oratory in Reading?
Nice vid mate I want to get a 410 Lee Enfield SMLE Can u do some vids on pinfire gun
F.e
my great uncle said he carried something similar to this in north Africa
Your great uncle did not carry a post-war .22 training rifle in North Africa.
forgive my wording will edit for obvious reasons unless he was a time traveller
I have one. Shoot all day for 5 quid and no sore shoulder.
Hang on does he live in Switzerland?
RARE? .. Canada is full of them :)
Have one in my closet
Maybe the # 7 without the magazine but not ones with. If you indeed do have one with the 5 round mag, you own one of only 2,500 made. As do I BTW.
hi Bloke, do you find this stuff at swiss gun shows or is this more of an English thing?
Bloke on the Range so I live in Switzerland and I am interested in to getting in to shooting is there any chance I could get your email
No. 7 are extremely expensive. The single shot 22's are way less expensive.