.410 Lee Speed?

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Vaarok

Discussion Starter · Mar 21, 2010

I saw something interesting the other day, I decided not to buy because honestly I wasn't tremendously interested, but thought I'd ask nonetheless.

It was a MLE/Lee action, with a MLE bolt (thumb safety on the cockingpiece), the three-bundled-arrows commercial proofs, a dovetail on the barrel for a rear sight but no rear sight, and was smoothbore .410, solid floor of the action with no provision for a magazine, and stocked in a one-piece (no wrist collar) sporting stock.

Looked like a generic cheap garden gun, and that's what I figured it was. For a bid of $150 I let it pass but it did surprise me that it was ever made.

Can anybody tell me anything about it besides or in contravention of my guess that it was a cheap rabbit gun?

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krinko

· #2 · Mar 21, 2010

It's listed in the 1912 BSA catalogue as a cheap rabbit gun, so your instincts are working properly.
-----krinko

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Mk VII

· #3 · Mar 21, 2010

We see these guns occasionally here. They were cheap shotguns based on components BSA were churning out anyway. Some turn up in Rook & Rabbit calibres.

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Englishman_ca In Memoriam

· #4 · Mar 22, 2010 (Edited)

These are neat little garden guns. Chambered in 2-1/2 inch 410. Very light, about 4-1/2 pounds. Although the bolt appears to be a modified long Lee item, it is not interchangeable with that of the rifle, the receiver and trigger group are totaly different.

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