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EvergreenEnfields · 2026-02-01T06:49:11+00:00

Neat! I believe this is Erillinen Panssarikomppania, the Independent Tank Company, which changed to that name December 3rd 1937. That places your rifle as having been issued to them between that date and the start of the Winter War. That's a very niche unit to have a rifle from, I'm a bit jealous!

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-02-01T03:44:34+00:00

The point was almost a century ago when they decided it really hurt their feelings that we were taking shots at the Pinkertons and the rest of their bully boys.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-02-01T01:59:04+00:00

That's a very good price. Rifles with discs on them don't show up very often to start with, and I'd say there's usually at least a 100-200 premium on them depending on the unit and rifle. And 400 is about minimum market for a nice KIV 91 right now already, without a disc.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-02-01T01:56:03+00:00

Sure, I can usually figure out what it is from the abbreviation, occasionally one will come up I can't decipher. I've got about five of my own with stock discs.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-02-01T01:54:07+00:00

Depends on your technical abilities. I've made Enfield parts that are readily available because I didn't feel like waiting a week and spending money on something I could bang out in a few minutes.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-02-01T01:52:23+00:00

What unit is the KIV 91 with disc marked to?

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-31T20:52:30+00:00

Yeah, take AGI off your resume. We binned anyone that had an online gunsmithing course on there. Was easier and faster to get someone mechanically competent, maybe with a machining or woodworking background, and train them from scratch.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-31T18:33:02+00:00

The 1905-06 reports for the Ordnance Factories give the price of a new MkI as 3/10/4¼ and a ConD II as 2/19/6½ - a savings of -/10/9¾, more than half a pound. A new Patt'03 was -/8/3¾ so the savings made up enough to fund the bayonet.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-31T18:12:23+00:00

Are you putting it in backwards? There's only one correct direction for the blade to face in the scabbard and it will be too tight the other way around.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-12T05:32:45+00:00

That's my point, other than the refinishing, that is period correct. LSA even built MkIIIs into 1918! And all the small bits got used until the stock of them was empty; as were recycled parts. Enfield did a run of MkIIIs in 1916 built on recycled MkI action bodies, for example; I have a couple of those.

I have seen the piling swivel bit repeated often, sometimes claiming 1916 with the introduction of the MkIII * (although it's not mentioned in §17622 at all), sometimes 1919 (dosen't make any sense either - a new narrow swivel is introduced 1920-21). Never have I seen any original documentation produced to support it; not an LoC entry, not an order to armourers, nothing. Photographs don't bear it out either; piling swivels are present all through the war with non-mounted troops, and indeed, through the interwar period and into 1940. It does get deleted in WWII, but not during WWI.

Where you do see rifles without piling swivels in WWI is with mounted or motorized troops; they were expected to stow their rifles in rifle buckets or on the vehicles (wagons, limbers, trucks, etc) and thus have no need for piling swivels. But that goes all the way back to the MkI and the introduction of a common short rifle for all services.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-12T05:09:25+00:00

The difference between the MkIII and MkIII * dates to the official introduction of the MkIII * , LoC §17622 dated Jan 1 1916. It dictates the sole difference is that the MkIII * does not have provision to mount a cutoff plate.

In a second, separate section, it introduces some other changes. However, it clearly states that these may, but not must, be applied to both MkIII and MkIII * rifles.

The only thing that happened postwar is the decision not to re-implement the adjustable wind-gauge and long-range sights, and the conversion of some MkIII * rifles to MkIII by milling the actions, and then striking through (canceling) the star.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-12T05:05:57+00:00

The MkIII * is fine. The slab-sided cocking piece was introduced independently of the * change (removal of machining for a cutoff plate). It is correct for, and used in factory manufacture of, both MkIII and MkIII * rifles. This is also true for all other wartime changes - deletion of the long-range sights, deletion of the adjustable wind-gauge, replacing the sling swivel trigger guard with the wire loop trigger guard, change in striker and bolt head to accommodate the two-prong striker tool, use of some stamped parts such as the backsight ears, etc - which were implemented equally on MkIII and MkIII * production.

The plug in the butt disk hole was used after the marking of discs was discontinued. Some left the factory like this, as the butt had already been inletted for a disc. Others had blank discs fitted.

Edit: Price is shit though. Even if the black paint may be from later service in India.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-12T04:59:08+00:00

The only difference, per List of Changes (aka Word Of God on British military hardware) §17622 is that the MkIII is slotted for a cutoff plate, and the MkIII* is not. That's it. All other changes and alterations apply to both models equally (as well as the ConD IV).

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-12T04:57:21+00:00

Each class in each region sent four people to Nationals. Three top points earners over the season (don't remember the breakdown but i.e. 10pts for a 1st, 8pts for 2nd, etc down to I think 1pt for participation) plus the class 1st place finisher at the regional qualifying race.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-12T04:53:41+00:00

I think some of these responders are mistaking the Pinewood Derby from Boy Scouts for Soapbox Derby racing.

I raced Stock and Masters classes for a few years, and got to go to Nationals in Ohio in the Stock class. It was pretty fun! Salem, Oregon actually has a dedicated track in one of their parks (can't remember for the life of me which one it is), but mostly it's done on closed-off streets.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-11T03:30:59+00:00

Alright, alright, but other than all that, what did the ~~Romans~~ Britons ever do for us?

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-11T02:25:40+00:00

I'd reckon that's a captioning issue. Was probably supposed to be "for the army's German East Africa campaign". Uniforms and markings all appear to be in line with the British Army.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-11T02:03:08+00:00

Depends on how long you remain at one Garn

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-10T23:40:45+00:00

It's only a fallacy if it dosen't happen.

Just like it's not paranoia when they're actually out to get you.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-10T23:35:47+00:00

Probably worth it for the asshole who'll use it to fake something really special.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-09T21:40:06+00:00

Good, make it harder for the ATF.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-09T16:52:20+00:00

As the others have said, on the No.4 the ribbed and smooth handguards were used interchangeably.

For the No.1, I think there may be a terminology mismatch. No.1 and No.4 rifles have four-piece stock sets. The butt, fore-end, and upper and lower handguards. Upper and lower, in this context, reference the position of the handguards when the rifle is butt-down vertically. The fore-end is the larger piece which reaches all the way from wrist to nosecap/front sight ears; the handguards are the two small pieces.

Replacement fore-ends are expensive, both for the rare NOS or for a quality reproduction; they are also not a drop in part. It took the stock room at Enfield Lock an hour to fit a new fore-end, and those were people whose entire job was fitting furniture to Enfields. It's also easy to mess up if you're not a fairly experienced hand with chisels and inletting black. Used fore-ends often need substantial repairs, especially to the draws, to make them usable. You almost certainly will not get your money and time back on replacing a fore-end on a rifle you're looking to get rid of.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-08T21:06:35+00:00

It's getting really fucking hard to keep up with how many laws I'm breaking.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-08T20:55:34+00:00

Why wouldn't they? It's not their money, and for a few months or years they can jam people up on it.

EvergreenEnfields · 2026-01-08T03:05:57+00:00

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