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In this video we take a look at a very interesting part of Enfield history, the No1 MkIII .410 Musket. These were conversions of original .303 British rifles over to .410 smoothbores for a prison guards and police work among other things. These Enfields were originally designed to fire 98gr musket ball loads which are still available however many were opened up for modern 2 1/2" .410 shells, this example included. Stay tuned, much more on the way.
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@ArtisanTony 6 лет назад

Can you imagine a squirrel thinking you were pointing .303 Enfield at him, lol

@Smirkku 6 лет назад

It's not a .303 though :/

@ArtisanTony 6 лет назад

But he couldn’t know :)

@uriahshepherd3393 6 лет назад

HILARIOUS BROTHER! i think that there is the coolest rifle/shotgun ive seen in a minute lol

@CrudeConduct666 4 года назад

He'd be like "Oi! I ain't no Jerry! Put that thing down mate!"

@CrudeConduct666 4 года назад

@@Smirkku that's the point -_-

@Charsept 6 лет назад

These are like the guns the guards had at the British embassy in India, aren't they?

@TrashMutt 6 лет назад

Charsept they are

@lastswordfighter 6 лет назад

They were also used to arm prison guards and were popular as a hunting/self defense weapon.

@grendelgrendelsson5493 6 лет назад

When I was an Army Cadet in the early 1970's, Lee Enfield .303's were the first weapons we got to use! The last (many years later) was a 120mm anti-tank gun!!! Keep up the good work mate, your videos are cracking!!

@mrcaboosevg6089 6 лет назад

There are a lot of these in the UK, pretty cheap too

@2bitmarketanarchist337 6 лет назад

MrcabooseVG I would imagine a lot of guns that are available there aren't as expensive just because there isn't the market for them like there is here in the US or Canada?

@ferretboy221 6 лет назад

Also with things like these Enfields when places like India returned to self rule a lot of equipment came back to the uk....

@mrcaboosevg6089 6 лет назад

There's about 1.5 million people with FAC's and shotgun certificates so there's a decent sized market for them. Not many people collect here though, hunters stick to their rifles and shotguns, target shooters stick to their .22s, 'tactical' people stick to their semi auto shotguns and so on... I think basic .303 Lee Enfields cost more here than the states though which is odd

@2bitmarketanarchist337 6 лет назад

MrcabooseVG Really? Huh that's surprising to me. Why don't all British shooters unite under one flag?

@beardedbjorn5520 6 лет назад

Same here in Australia

@mattluscombe2071 6 лет назад

The main reason for the modern conversion of these is that in the U.K. it’s FAR easier to licence a shotgun than a rifle. That opened them up to re-enactment groups who could own them far more easily than the rifled 0.303 and if you’re only firing blanks it makes no difference! Over this side of the pond you can also get the No.4 SMLE in conversion to 0.410 smooth bore shotgun which is also popular with the re-enactment groups - British Home Guard were issued with ex WW1 SMLEs as they were the same calibre 303 as the WW2 issue No4 - an update of the SMLE

@skepticalbadger 6 лет назад

Matt Luscombe Not to be that bloke, but the No.4 is not an SMLE.

@Ryan.90 6 лет назад

Matt Luscombe That's correct, to own a 'section 1' . 303 you'd normally have to be an active member of a gun club that has access to a 'fullbore' range. I.e, the onus is on *you* to satisfy the powers that be you have a 'good reason' to own one. While with shotgun, basically if you're not legally or medically disqualified, you're good to go. You still need a licence of course but *they'd* need to come up with a good reason not to grant you one.

@michaelpriest6242 6 лет назад

These conversion were made 2 generations ago. Was gun control an issue that far back?

@dillonc7955 2 месяца назад

They also gained tons of popularity in former British colonied like India where they didn't have proper shotguns so they just converted former SMLEs into shotguns.

@matthewbrojakowski5250 6 лет назад

I used to have one of these in the original musket chambering, very interesting load to make rounds for. You would have to anneal 303 casings and load them with 3-4gr of bullseye, fill the case with cream of wheat and then wax seal the end. You fireform the cases and then load them with shot with cardboard discs as buffers. Loading the round ball round was trickier, you had to make a 44 crimp die work to round the case over the ball. Very fun gun.

@cobrae 6 лет назад

Should do a 45-70 enfield. I took one hunting a while ago it was a really nice rifle.

@sigseamonster8983 5 лет назад

This is EXACTLY the enfield I came here for

@washingtonbob49 6 лет назад

Eric and Chad...thanks for the best channel on RU-vid. Informative and entertaining with lots of great content. From the foothills of Mt Rainier in Washington State.......Bob

@Valois_Kressa-Heller 6 лет назад

Now, just load the shells with slugs and black powder and you've got yourself a true steampunk-style musket. (According to the views, i am 34th)

@2aaa809 6 лет назад

Arouteous Kophrebus I like the way you think

@michaelpriest6242 6 лет назад

Berdan primers.

@ModernDiecast 6 лет назад

I have one of these. It's not really practical for much, but it is fun to shoot. Not a bad shotgun to teach some new shooters with. Looks pretty cool with a buttstock shell holder stuffed full of .410 too.

@ChrisB.C. 6 лет назад

Someone should REALLY work out a magazine for these! Maybe an adapter to use Saiga .410 mags? Hell, even a little 3-4 round box would be nice. I remember seeing these in Shotgun News for stupidly cheap prices when I was a kid. That they were single-shot .410s built like a tree trunk, and their odd chambering, kept me from ever really lusting after one. Like they say, "If I knew then what I know now!"

@sethmullins8346 Год назад

in the 9 hole reviews video on it, they just use an enfield mag

@joelopezjl28 6 лет назад

Hell 2 boxes of 410 gets you to 303 prices

@Fuzzyburritto93 6 лет назад

Dout it for the most part, 25 rounds of 410 bird shot is 12$ ish

@joelopezjl28 6 лет назад

Nathanael Henderson 24$ gets you federal brand 303 here

@joelopezjl28 6 лет назад

keith moore i guess bc its not as common anymore?

@vincenttschida8849 6 лет назад

I bought bulk 303 Privi Partizan from Cabale's with a $20 off coupon last month. Per shell it was cheaper than 30-30. Privi Partizan brass is much better than Federal.

@Subgunman 6 лет назад

Not only made as riot guns but there were a bunch of shot out barrels that were too pitted to return to service so they bored them out for .410 ( also can use as smooth bore .45 long colt.) bought my barrel from Springfield Sporters for cheap about 14 years ago. Magazine can be made functional again with a little work but one needs to do some work to get the .410 to feed. Now one could do some machine work and bore out the muzzle and thread it for a rifled choke tube, might look at the tubes used by the Thompson Contender or Encore .410 / .45 LC barrels. Have a spare enfield action that gets this barrel installed when I get a chance.

@Kruegernator123 Год назад

Hats off to the British for repurposing some of their old rifles instead of just selling them back on the surplus market, throwing them into storage for decades or outright destroying them.

@314299 6 лет назад

These things sell for $400 to $450 around here, when they were originally imported/sold they were $89.

@blindarchershaunhenderson3769 6 лет назад

Part of the reason for these conversions was so that the government here in the UK needed could get rid of thousands of surplus rifles after the end of ww2 so they made them available all over the commonwealth as shotguns, especially here in the UK, at a time when all you had to do to get a shotgun certificate was to go into the post office, pay £5, you could then go buy a shotgun, lots of veterans wanted these because they were familiar. This was in the 50s, 60s, and early seventies before gun control increased massivly

@stgsyd7183 2 года назад

Obtaining a shotgun certificate is still pretty easy in UK

@blindarchershaunhenderson3769 2 года назад

@@stgsyd7183 if you live in the country and have land to shoot over maybe, unless you're already a member of a shotgun club in the UK Youve got virtually no chance I'm getting a shotgun certificate, whilst it's true that the police are more likely to issue shotgun certificates than an FAC, they still don't like doing it. And won't if they don't think you need one

@crazycressy7986 Год назад

That was the good old days and you could buy shotguns out of the club books

@DeimosPC 6 лет назад

I need Enfields. Not just one. Notice that was plural. I need them all. Every single one. It's been one of my dream guns since I was a kid and now that I can legally own them because I live in this beautiful, fucking awesome country. I will own as many as possible aha.

@campbell0162 6 лет назад

I love Lee Enfields. Up here in Canada, the military is selling off old Canadian made surplus Enfields that are chambered in the original amazing 303 British cartridge. Great gun for the Canadian wilderness, just due to the pure power factor you have in a 303. They are going for $949.00 to be exact. Great video guys!

@ATruckCampbell 10 месяцев назад

That didn't age well.

@CPFMTKV Месяц назад

@@ATruckCampbell so far they’re still safe afaik

@dbmail545 6 лет назад

My late father owned a Krag carbine that had been converted to .410.

@2009Berghof 8 месяцев назад

The regrettable incident occurred in 1919 in India. The Indians were demonstration in a town square for independence. The local British Army General sent in two companies of Colonial troops whom opened fire expending all their .303 ammo. If I recall correctly it was 1,600 rounds.

@sunchu42 6 лет назад

I recently took mine out deer hunting and killed a 200# 8 point with it. I was shooting the original 410 musketball ammo. At 50yds I knocked it down with a double lung shot just behind the shoulder. Buck ran 50 yds and piled up. Truly impressed with the power of that old ammo. Practiced at 50 yes and 3 inch group was not bad for that old smoothbore.

@flipeverything2734 4 года назад

I just had one of these handed down to me from my step dad. It’s in great condition too. I’m super excited!

@ArcticWipeout 6 лет назад

That first soda shot was amazing haha

@rednecksniper4715 6 лет назад

I saw one of these at a pawn shop for $225 it's still there I Might pick it up and get ray to open it up

@alcapone796 6 лет назад

JUST DO IT (that is a awsome price)

@user-ud2ij7ro5c 6 лет назад

Grab that thing( the scattergun)!

@logankincade661 6 лет назад

What pawn shop ????!!!!!!

@geraldswain3259 6 лет назад

Over here in the UK,.410 cartridges have allways been available in the little 2inch size also. and I believe they still are. Regards from a old limey b.

@joek9235 6 лет назад

Does anyone else think it's cool how the big gun channels wear each other's shirts?

@BlueFox284 6 лет назад

I don't think Eric and Yankee Marshall will be wearing each other's shirts anytime soon. . .

@2aaa809 6 лет назад

Guns and gadgets has a video up on how we can help push the national reciprocity bill that's going to vote tomorrow. Everybody please watch the video and take action we can't afford to sit on our hands if we want this to go through.

@2aaa809 6 лет назад

By the way Eric cool vid and you know if you're looking to sell that bad boy I'm looking to buy. That is cool as hell.

@2aaa809 6 лет назад

Dammit my wife is going to be pissed. I just bought a Px4 storm and a hi point carbine and now I'm going to have to get this. Are you trying to get me divorced or what man.

@isaacsprenger9940 6 лет назад

Patrick M link? Pls

@2aaa809 6 лет назад

I like Guns I'm old school don't know how to do links just search guns and gadgets in RU-vid it's his latest video. Glad to see people are interested in fighting for the rights of our country though.we need everybody we can get these days.

@2aaa809 6 лет назад

I like Guns . By the way I like guns to man.

@R32R38 6 лет назад

Cool trick with the shells between your fingers. Four aimed shots in twelve seconds.

@jarchiec 5 лет назад

I know you guys posted this nearly a year ago. I just bought a No1, Mkiii * today and went back and found this to watch. I miss Barry. I know you guys do too.

@seananthonyegan3395 6 лет назад

Always enjoyable every educational.

@paulandsueroberts4121 6 лет назад

How smooth is that action!

@2k7duramax 6 лет назад

Enfield smooth.

@logankincade661 6 лет назад

Yeah, Enfield smooooooooooooth.......... Holding mine now

@rupertguy2560 2 года назад

The original .410 ammo for that gun is an annealed .303 case, and can be fireformed to fit any .410 gun.....the Brits were not into wasting anything, that .410 is a rebored, shot out .303 barrel.....coincidently I was reloading My 410/.303 brass this evening....load a .410 load, capped off with a calling card baffle and some white wood glue....enjoy...

@mingheemouse 6 лет назад

I am not sure how short the hulls need to be, but on the Ballistic Products website they sell primed 2 inch, short .410 hulls for $17.19/100 count. If that would work in the old unmodified chambers then you would have a supply ready to go.

@thendnjedi1388 6 лет назад

410 is my favorite to shoot, I hope i can get my hands on one

@MegaBoilermaker 3 года назад

A few this side of the pond with 3" chambering. The unfortunate incident that you referred to was I believe the one that took place in India .

@KRN762 6 лет назад

The Lee-Enfield (a Savage No4) was my first rifle, so I have a special love for the old Smellies. Great rifles indeed.

@davidkohler7454 4 года назад

Hi. Eric..the Enfield that I have shoots actual brass case. 303 rounds that have a lead ball slug in them. They come as surplus in a really cool wooden box about 7inch square. Very cool

@cclcanadiancountrylife3628 6 лет назад

This gun is probably the coolest .410 I’ve seen in a while. Would love to get my hands on 1

@davidtinney9463 6 лет назад

You are the Bob Ross of the gun world

@packbadge 6 лет назад

That sound of the bolt is orgasmic

@MrMacroJesseSky 6 лет назад

Really wanted one of these to take sporting clays shooting

@garyalensr 6 лет назад

Eric, I've been with you guys from the start my friend, Thank you guys for all the great vids brother. Is there anyway you can so a tribute video for Barry?

@2aaa809 6 лет назад

Gary Allen Barry was his own tribute. We lost a great man there. It still seems weird to watch these videos without him.

@garyalensr 6 лет назад

Patrick M your right. He was a very entertaining person to watch. He was the reason I subbed in the beginning but then I fell in love with the channel. Eric and Chad are the best on RU-vid in my opinon.

@leadguitarofmayhem 6 лет назад

my father used my grandfather 43 mauser with 410 all the time and it was great ! the 43 was a real beater almost no rifling left hahaha

@madaboutmilitaria3630 3 года назад

Got one and a Lithgow .410. Great things.

@michael-zg2co 4 года назад

You guys are just havin' too much fun. I just got 4 of these as gunsmith specials for $125.00. I am hoping to det at least one of them running soon. They look like somebody kicked here all the way from Ishapore

@Irishpewtuber 4 года назад

I live in Ireland.. those .410 conversions are very popular among reenactors mainly because it's all they can get licenced to them. The laws are very different here. Each firearm required to be licenced to the owner

@kevinbaker6168 6 лет назад

Some of your ideas are dead on about what the British were doing. One that you failed to mention was cost and surplus arms reutilization. What they did was take surplus Mark I's and modified them to be single shot shotguns. As to the ammunition issue, the British had also tried issuing a proprietary 14 gauge Martini Henry single shot. This cartridge used a three point firing pin, which related to the priming system. The one problem that the British did not anticipate was that the guns that fell out of their hands could be loaded and fired with 16 gauge ammunition. Eric, have you thought of making some brass 410 cases out of 444 Marlin, and cutting them down to 2 inches so you can load 45 slugs into them?

@NJPurling 6 лет назад

If you had some evil zombie squirrels you could also fit the sword-bayonet.

@williamkenney339 6 лет назад

Wonderful! Try shooting a round of skeet with it. Of course, you would have to shoot the doubles as singles, but that's OK.

@IWatchedWhat 6 лет назад

That just rocks, I have a few .410s, and now that is on my look for list.

@Whofan91 10 месяцев назад

If I owned one I wouldn't waste any time in developing a "buck and ball" load. Wish I'd found this video sooner 😊

@bobobrother 4 года назад

Springfield Sporter Special! $49.95 back in the day! And just a few years ago. Southern Ohio Guns imported a shipping container full of the original British wooden crated .410 ball ammo. I believe that the original ammo is a British .303 case that is not necked down to .303.

@djangoWier 6 лет назад

Thanks for sharing a bit of history with us.

@steamengineshooray 6 лет назад

*Needs more SMLE*

@Burnt_Gerbil 6 лет назад

Watermelon bowling.... What the hell?! Haha.

@aussievaliant4949 6 лет назад

Had one until recently, an Ishapore Arsenal 1942. A converted No 1 Mk 3 star. A lot were old and tired rifles converted and issued to police/militia. As a smooth bore, and originally a necked down .303 with a musket ball, they were not accurate beyond maybe 100 yards. I see Eric's was originally a BSA 1918.

@demurevilleneuvewinslet8235 Год назад

A riot gun. Wow, an antique that can still be used today.

@tletang 6 лет назад

Great video, Can't wait for the jungle carbine. I picked one up last year and they are a blast to shoot.

@Bobbymaccys 6 лет назад

Oh no this is exactly the Enfield I came for

@Wulable 6 лет назад

Have you ever shot or seen a GEHA shotgun? Its the Mauser G98 converted into a 3 shot bolt action goose gun.

@brycebullman2270 6 лет назад

Eric you should replicate the original load using 303british brass fireformed and trimmed to 2-1/2 and loaded accordingly would make for a good video if it has a 3 in chamber I think you can form 9.3x74r maybe to make 3in brass shells

@bkrandysavage9089 6 лет назад

Is there any chance you can make a video on the updated Texas knife/blade laws to help spread the word

@MrThomass281 6 лет назад

Wow, I am amazed at the price people are asking for those. I remember back in the 80s seeing them for less than $100.

@nicks604 6 лет назад

This is so unique! Thanks for the upload

@rollin18wheels 6 лет назад

I like to think I’m fairly knowledgeable about guns, partially thanks to you fine folks at IV8888, but until 17 minutes and 11 seconds ago I had no clue that this was a thing.

@JR9979 6 лет назад

In British colonial Africa and parts of India .303 British was banned for use by the public. Like you said Eric, they had a riot and large numbers of full military spec Enfields where stolen from an armory and used by dissident groups to attack the police. Afterwards the British converted all police issue Enfield rifles to .410 and had full size military units guard the armory instead of just a squad like before.

@Yeoman7 6 лет назад

Hits harder than I expected

@ferretboy221 6 лет назад

I have a No4 Mk1 Version of this from 1943 Made by savage under lend lease.....love it odd bit of history.

@alansmith19890 6 лет назад

My dad owns one of these but it's a Canadian No.4 MK1 that's modified to hold 5 shots and in .410 obviously.

@drewcole297 6 лет назад

Love the videos! I appreciate all you teach us.

@ashleywells1053 6 лет назад

The barrels so long it reaches half way to a 25 yard target resulting in a 1/4 spread

@Harshhaze 6 лет назад

Ashley wells right? I'd think it'd look better if it were shortened by a foot or so. It's single shot anyway

@2aaa809 6 лет назад

But that full length barrel kind of makes it look like an SBR. At least to me it does

@2aaa809 6 лет назад

I meant full length stock

@Ensign_Cthulhu 6 лет назад

Oh man, if I had one of these I would go through so much ammo; I'd completely wreck my .410 reloading press through overuse. I have occasionally taken out a .410 shotgun and busted clays with it that are launched from where I'm standing. You guys should try that with this. And... shoot it for group with solid slugs.

@charlesmiller6826 6 лет назад

A new gun to add to my "Bucket list" of guns.

@domino52o26 6 лет назад

Chads enthusiasm is infectious

@Scrump_Can 6 лет назад

Well you can shoot squirrels with a Lee Enfield but there just won't be much left of it

@trevfeht4113 4 года назад

There are also some mosins converted to 410

@billypaulwilliams 6 лет назад

Good lawd the patina on that rifle...shotgun is perfect.

@Brennan_the_smith 6 лет назад

I have been looking for one of these for years

@shootmcrunfast 6 лет назад

These are great guns. .303 is easy to find but is not the cheapest, next time I see one of these I'll be picking one up to go with my Mk3*, I nearly picked up a .410 Martini Henry a few weeks back but just missed out.

@behindenemylines3361 6 лет назад

Awesome video- thanks! Back in the day - SAMCO had them

@sgtjacques4172 6 лет назад

This reminds me of a mosin nagant that i saw at a gun show. It was re chambered for a .22 lr. Pretty interesting

@Avetis1992 6 лет назад

Dear IraqVeteran8888 please try new russian 9,6/53 lancaster ammo for smooth-bore weapons! They are exquisite peace of art

@ArtisanTony 6 лет назад

Yeah .410! :)

@noelmajers6369 3 года назад

Interesting theories. It has to be said that a well trained platoon armed with Lee Enfield .303s could put down a murderous rate of fire as was apparent from even the earliest skirmishes of WW1 (so much so that the German army very quickly stopped laughing any the relatively small size of the British Expeditionary Force during these days). It should also be said that the Lee Enfield action is so smooth that even this guy armed with just the single shot variant doesn't do too badly !

@LemonRiverOutdoors 6 лет назад

That is pretty cool. Thanks for the video!

@gregwright392 6 лет назад

Nice. Always wanted one of those and the 22 trainer!

@AnimooBobba 6 лет назад

really top notch close out on the video

@JadedChaos1 6 лет назад

By my understanding, the British would take enfields that had been shot out and bore them out to 410, and gave them to prison guards in areas where they didn't really trust the indigenous peoples. The cartridges used for this where typically non formed 303 cartridges.

@tjmills305 6 лет назад

Very nice I need to add one to my collection

@JTMC93 6 лет назад

I wanna see you guys discuss old muskets and how the Founding Fathers never needed to imagine repeating arms as they already existed long before the 2nd Amendment. (IIRC the oldest design was a small run of pepperbox based matchlock guns made before the first american colony was founded.) Or the Girandoni air rifle like what was taken on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and was first made in 1779.

@uncroissant5553 6 лет назад

So it's pretty much an original greener police gun but an Enfield variant ?

@blizte3 6 лет назад

this is very cool idea teach kid shooting if were made again.

@bradbo3 6 лет назад

saw that shirt on your video last week and had to have it....got it. You guys should have more Tshirts in your store

@Toolness1 6 лет назад

I would like to see someone convert these back to magazine fed. Seems like you could easily convert a mag to handle the .410, could probably fit 6 rounds or so in there.

@zoinkedshaggy 6 лет назад

That intro was great.

@robertclure 6 лет назад

Would have been nice to hear from yall about bill HR38 AND bill HR4434

@k.d.thomas2537 6 лет назад

Another weapon I wish I had bought when they were dirt cheap. I saw 4-5 at a show for $49.99.

@mouse0and0duster 6 лет назад

You should try your PU Sniper at 600 yards

@raymondheywood6703 Год назад

After the Britain changed from the 303 to the 308 rifle quite a lot of 303s "out of a job" were sold off and bored out as 410s . The British law was easier on shot gun that it was to rifles