I may have posted this on the old Boards, but what the heck.About 5 years ago an old woman walked into a local shop that doesn't really deal much in Milsurps,just plastic and LEO stuff.The guy behind the counter,while a hell of a nice guy, wouldn't know WWI from WWII and thinks that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor while Kennedy was President.The old lady was handing over her father's old rifle because she no longer wanted it around and was afraid someone would break in and steal it and shoot someone.She told the counter guy the story of the gun and based on the the story he relayed to me and his total ignorance of all things historical,I figured he didn't make it up.He jotted down a few things on a piece of paper and then read to me from his "notes".The story goes like this.The lady's father was a sailor on a US battleship that went over with other US Battleships to the British naval base towards the end of the Great War.Her father somehow gained possession of the rifle and brought it home where it sat in a closet or was used as a "spare" deer rifle when relatives showed up.The story could be so much BS, but on his notepad the guy had jotted down things like "1917" "Admiral Rodman" "Scapal Flow" and "USS Wyoming".Pretty interesting stuff considering his ignorance.Anyway,since the shop didn't really deal in "old junk " (that has changed considerably) and he was just doing the old lady a favor,he passed the rifle along to me for about twice what he had given her,which wasn't much.So I came to possess a beautiful,all matching(with original 1910 dated sling) CLLE Mk I with a Metford barrel.Which I figure is just what a reserve or home guard unit at Scapa Flow would be issued in 1917.Skennerton states that most of these went to naval units so that ties in also.Again, maybe BS,maybe not but it sure was interesting.