$200 for a trashed sporter is nuts. The saving grace is it’s 30’s dated and the Iraq stamping is a bonus. I’ve been collecting enfields for 20 years and haven’t found a 30’s dated one yet, well done.
No he is not,metal is metal these are primarily diamonds in the rough. Be men about it learn how to be patient and have some imagination. In Louisiana we train mules to walk just like Clydesdales.
And I'm here for it. These are entertaining to watch as it's a sort of gambling with buying from RTI. Plus his repair videos are just as fun, and this rifle is certainly a good candidate.
Well.. not to sound like an old man but I think it’s awesome that you young guys are buying and rebuilding these old military rifles. I had lots of fun in high school doing that and continue to work on old guns to this day. My favorites are my Lee Enfields. My Long Branch will shoot with my M-1A at 400 yards. Good luck to you. I think that bore will clean up fine and those pitted lands will spin a bullet no problem.
Got a non shortened coming tomorrow. Planning on using with the grenade cup to launch tennis balls, so not too worried about bore, but I’d still take some rifling!! Lol
I think you came up on this one that does look like an Iraqi Jeem marked rifle. The British were stationed in Ira a long time probably captured in the Iraq/Iran war then moved up to Africa. That rifle has seen some battlefields and been passed around alot the history on it is probably amazing
These would be an interesting option for some one into milsurp that wants a medium game (deer, coyote) rifle that shares ammo and operations with their milsurp. Already butcherd - so no regrets.. I look forward to the next episode
Bought a rough BSA sporter no1 mk111 from a seller on GB. Muzzle was bad so after a complete fore stock replacement along with buying all the metal and cutting the barrel down to 20 inches I love it. No more keyholes. Mine is a 1942 Dispersal Rifle.
For other folks with No 4 Mk 1 "sporterized" type rifles I have a Sante Fe made in Japan 5 shot hunting magazine that came with a 1945 No 5 (original) Jungle Carbine.
1936 - A scarce gun. Worth restoring even in poor condition. While I was collecting Enfields I would have scarfed it right up. Examples dating from the mid to late twenties and thirties are hard to come buy.
Mine cleaned up nice. Was going to use it as a parts gun but it turned out nice. A interesting adition to the collection. Already had an extra magazine so life is good.😊
Great video! It's great to see someone tackle projects like this. You will surely inspire others to follow. It's important to save the historically significant firearms. I lived through the 80s when all the surplus was coming back into the US. Those were the days!
If the comments are all correct and that is Iraqi marking on both the receiver and the barrel you made out great I know people are going to hate but I think you'll do a great job restoring that congratulations man You really kind of tempt me into buying one of these!!!
Wow. right up my alley I love cleaning up old milsurps and bringing new life to them. I bet will be a shooter. They are out of stock today.I may have missed te boat.
200 is a little high, but I would be happy just to have a wall hanger to clean, explore and enjoy. I have never gotten a RTI, but I know most came from a pile of rifles stored in a chicken coup. I set my expectations low, but I do love history. I have others for that nice shiny experience. So these have history value to me that is hard to set a number on..........
Sporterization for military or militant service adds to it's history. It's best to leave in it's Sporter configuration with the rti receipt to prove origin
Those are Iraqi marks and the 1930’s date is neat. I’d keep the buttstock since it has the Iraqi stock disk, or move the disk to the new stock. The bore looks totally shootable, probably just a bunch of crap in it. I always figure if there is strong rifling, even if it’s looking nasty, it’s could very well be still a 3-4 MOA gun, which is pretty much spec for old bolt guns. I would have spent $200 on *that* specific rifle. Restorable, doesn’t swallow a bullet, dated from the 1930’s and Iraqi use-all that adds up to “worth it” in my book.
I dont mind sporterized rifles. I have a 1903 that my grandfather built in the mid 50's after he got back from the Pacific. Its absolutely gorgeous and a shooter. The Fajen stock is unbelievable and sports one of the very first Leupold Vari X scopes. He kept the original military stock which I do have. There used to be and probably still are tons of sporters in the Pa mountains killin deer. 8mm Mausers,7mm Mausers and 06's.
Awsome video!!! I just got myself a project enfield! im going to be starting a restoration series on my channel! Do you have any tips for cleaning the wood and removing rust?
Thanks for the heads up. I recently bought one of RTI's Lugers, had to scrub the crap out of it and it looks rough, but shoots just fine. Guess I got lucky on my dice roll.
Good to see you, my friend, I just picked up an M 95 carbine, from Royal Tiger B grade for $199 unfortunately or fortunately, in 8 x 50 R if I can find the ammo. Look forward to your future content Jim.
You are a better man than i am Gunga Din. I went as far a s a b grade had such bad luck with that one i would never go to a C grade let alone Ethiopian Sporterized.
At my local shop they had a sporter 1910 erfurt k98az. It had some surface rust but the action was smooth said $150 and i said sure along with a $400 great looking s.m.l.e.
Better you than me trying out crappy RTI and Hunter's Lodge products. I appreciate your effort and seeing them in detail though. Be safe though and don't shoot anything with too deep rust or excess parts damage. Even at 2024 prices that seems more like a $100.00 parts collection, not a $200 gun.
Iraqi markings and the date puts it as a first contract rifle. With the stock having the ishapore screw it got restocked with Indian parts that came into the kingdom before the revolution in the 50s before it got shipped out to Ethiopia. I've got 3 iraqi enfields in my collection and I've done considerable research on them. I would recommend using an ishapore lower stock on them to keep ot "original" before it got cut down. Something else to keep in kind is that the stock disc may be stamp on the other side and there are iraqi no 4s out there as with p14s. Haven't found any no 5s that are iraqi marked but it's not out of the realm of speculation there maybe a few before they switched to mausers and soviet weaponry.
I'm a glutton for punishment too. There is a new category of smle milsurp rifles. Ethiopian , sporterized, polished. Do not mess with these. They will come into their own in the following decades.
I think the rifle being sporterized probably saved the barrel. The part of the barrel under the wood is rusted and in really bad condition while the part that was exposed from the forearm being cut off looks good.
I’ve been buying C&R for 5 years, just received my license… if you were to roll the dice, which would you do, No4 Mk1 C Grade or No1 Mk3 C Grade sporter wanting to convert back to original spec?
I'm so old that I recall thousands of such rifles being imported into the U.S. back in the 1960s and 1970s. I never purchased one myself but the average going price was between $50.00 and $100.00 with a few going as high as $200.00. Here is the kicker, from way back then, almost all of those rifles were in perfectly functional condition out of the box but were advertised as "British Enfield Jungle Rifles/Carbines" with the addition of a very cheap "flash suppressor/hider" attached one way or another to their muzzles. I know large numbers of such rifles were shipped all over the country and sold briskly for a while until the news broke that REAL "British Enfield Jungle Rifles/Carbines" were NEVER produced in such vast numbers and the various importers were behind idea to shorten the rifles and at least insinuate that they were rare.
I could tell as soon as it came out of the box that the stock wood is not original to the rifle anyway. Let me explain. At 2:50, you show a closeup of the receiver that shows the rifle was made in 1936 at the Birmingham Small Arms company in England. George Rex cypher is clearly visible. That being said, the fore stock is very likely Indian manufacture as it has a visible cross bolt through the fore stock. Where the fore stock meets the receiver, you will also note that there is a metal reinforcement plate or bar that goes from one side of the fore stock to the other. You don't see this on earlier pattern Enfields, as the reinforcement plate is completely inlaid into the rear of the fore stock. However, being a 1936 production, Enfield, I may be wrong about the reinforcement plate. I will own it if I am wrong. lol The cross bolt, however, is a dead giveaway that the fore stock was produced at Ishapore. That being said, don't feel bad replacing this wood. In fact, I don't know if you are aware or not, but the serial number on the forestock is usually located just below the nose cap on the underside of the wood. If legible, that will be obviously be the best way to determine in most cases, but not here as this fore stock was Bubba'd and thus the serial number is long gone. Here is a link to this exact year and maker on Gun Broker. This will provide you with some good closeups of these areas on the wood for reference so you know what the rifle should look like. www.gunbroker.com/item/1033106013
Thank you sir for putting yourself through the "FINANCIAL SPANISH INQUISITION" you help us to know what not to do 😂😂it looks like the Ethiopians repeatedly wiped there buts with it 😂
What you have there is a version of the so called Jungle Carbine - which is Enfields flawed design as the 303. British ammo is too strong for the short barrel and causes terrible recoil and the Bang it produces may damage your hearing easily. They were sorted out even before WW2's end. Maybe sold off to 3rd world countries.
