[BrianR]

New one for sale 507761 – Used Guns.

Cadet use by the dipping of the front end in yellow paint. Red band..mmmm.

 

[eleanori]

Humm, but not at that price!

 

[Alan De Enfield]

So the 'front end is safe to use' but the back end is not to be used with live ammunition.

Confused !

 

[DEMO]

Cadet rifle not suitable to fire.

 

[JB White]

Not the first time a dual color coded rifle has turned up. Unless this is the same one?

 

[timmct]

Pricey...

 

[Highrider]

Pricey….? Yes and unrealistically so…. Suspect there’s a DP somewhere?

 

[timmct]

Made me feel awkward about the guns I tossed in a lake; back in 1979!

 

[ufo8mydog]

Surely no one is silly enough to pay that much money for that.

1923 dated actions are rarer for sure, but would even a matching example (I have only seen two) sell for that much?

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[john.k]

I see in the latest amnesty handin/destruction pics some SMLEs .........so Id assume the regular markup of the average Ozzie gunshop would make them around $2000.....assuming the dealer forewent his $30 to cut it up.

 

[milprileb]

Description says it great condition but red band (if original butt stock to rifle), may indicate otherwise. Yellow nose indicates marginal condition for shooting. Interesting twist of features, I wonder how many just like it came here to USA, bought and owners removed yellow nose paint and any color bands on wood...replaced or refinished wood and those rifles are floating around with perhaps risk to shoot or maybe not.

I wish we had a color system of sorts to paint the noses of our politicians

 

[john.k]

Dont they all have red noses from booze?

 

[JB White]

Dont they all have red noses from booze?

Red noses and yellow streaks down their backs.

 

[Aussie Anthony]

Surely no one is silly enough to pay that much money for that.

1923 dated actions are rarer for sure, but would even a matching example (I have only seen two) sell for that much?

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It is matching…..just not from 1923. I find it interesting that the nosecap remained matching after a 1947 rebuild. So many are blank.

 

[ufo8mydog]

It is matching…..just not from 1923. I find it interesting that the nosecap remained matching after a 1947 rebuild. So many are blank.

I should have worded it better. A matching, non rebuild/FTR rifle with a 1923 dated action.

 

[BrianR]

Anthony, the nosecap has either been replaced or had the ears cut as per instructions. So if cut, then orginal with serial number, if replaced why serial numbered when as you said this practice was discontinued.

 

[Aussie Anthony]

I should have worded it better. A matching, non rebuild/FTR rifle with a 1923 dated action.

I knew what you meant, just being pedantic like some others can be…

 

[Aussie Anthony]

Anthony, the nosecap has either been replaced or had the ears cut as per instructions. So if cut, then orginal with serial number, if replaced why serial numbered when as you said this practice was discontinued.

Correct, you see a lot of late 40’s rebuilds with cut ears and no serial number. I’d ask the question of the seller, but I’ve had little luck with him replying of late…

 

[DEMO]

It is matching…..just not from 1923. I find it interesting that the nosecap remained matching after a 1947 rebuild. So many are blank.

Yes mate it is. I’ve found predominantly, those rebuilds from 1944 to 1947 have unnumbered nosecaps, but some are numbered.

 

[Doogal]

Yes mate it is. I’ve found predominantly, those rebuilds from 1944 to 1947 have unnumbered nosecaps, but some are numbered.

I have asked this before, were all these rebuilds done at the same place, if not this might explain the discrepancy with numbering all parts....