Were that my rifle was so clearly marked as the above.
Am I at least right about it being a Savage though? It's very difficult to pinpoint all the turning points that define a particular mark according to Skennerton - mine doesn't seem to tick all the boxes. So I guess that any mix and matching was done prior it left service. These are a new serial number - I can just make out the remnants of the old one that had been polished off and then overstamped underneath. It seems to have left service in 1952 - because all the serial numbers on the bolt, breech and body match and have F52 stamped next to it. The bolt cocking piece is the three groove squared affair - not the round earlier version. Oddly it has six groove rifling - I was under the impression Savage used two-groove. It also has a nicer stock a light oak colour instead of the very dark finished wood and the brass buttplate instead of steel. The general finish quality of the rifle seems better than British produced rifles I've seen. It looks like I have the earlier No4 Mk1 version because the No4 /1* had the bolt release moved forward and simplified whilst mine has the traditional button release just behind the stripper clip feed. Unfortunately I can't make out a 'US Property' stamping because the area where it's supposed to be appears to have been machined off - along with some other markings / numbers and then overstamped with a single serial number. 303 and it looks like I have a Savage produced Enfield. So I did a bit of digging around on the Net and through Ian Skennerton's Small Arms Indentification on the.
The reason being that my rifle, whilst in excellent shape overall, has so many overstamping and proof marks that it's nigh on impossible to make out what they say - let alone chase down sources for the markings.Īnyhow today, for the first time ever, I noticed that on the top and bottom of the nose cap there is a squared capital letter 'S' within a square box looks a bit like this: I've never actually really bothered to interpret the markings on my Lee Enfield No.4 until today.
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