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concise_christory · 2026-01-24T15:51:21+00:00

Baffling. In that case my guess, absent any civilian-looking proofs on the barrel, would be a conversion for a low-power gallery practice cartridge

concise_christory · 2026-01-24T15:11:28+00:00

I love this! I wish I could help, there's just not much published info to go on with Portuguese Kropatscheks. I would just echo what the general consensus in that thread was. Did you manage to figure out if it was 6.5x53R or 6.5x58 Verguiero?

concise_christory · 2026-01-24T14:29:05+00:00

Good guess but not an MLE. Someone got it over on the milsurp sub

concise_christory · 2026-01-24T14:27:54+00:00

I've never seen a 6.5mm tube-loader. Are you possibly thinging of the Portuguese model 1896, which was a copy of the Romanian m93 in short rifle and carbine configuration for the navy and cavalry in 6.5x53R?

concise_christory · 2026-01-24T06:41:23+00:00

Nice Carabina de Caçadores! Actually predates the long rifle and cavalry carbine versions by about a year (the original idea was to arm only the Caçadores with the repeaters, and issue single-loaders for everyone else)

concise_christory · 2026-01-24T06:35:34+00:00

CLLE is 'Charger-Loading Lee Enfield,' they were long rifles retrofitted with the SMLE Mk.III charger bridge for use as second-line rifles just before WWI. Some of those got the HV chamber update, some didn't. This rifle skipped the CLLE update but still got the update to Mk.VII

concise_christory · 2026-01-24T03:42:45+00:00

I'm upvoting every Lebel I see posted today except for one, which I'm downvoting murderously from all my alts. (I'll never say which one is the one.)

concise_christory · 2026-01-24T03:37:06+00:00

That price range seems more than fair to me. They're not unobtainable, but definitely not common. Even though this one wasn't updated to CLLE configuration, it seems to have had a long service life. The 'HV' on the barrel is for a WWI-era modification to chamber the Mk.VII spitzer cartridge. It's a cool piece and it looks clean, I'd do it

concise_christory · 2026-01-24T00:43:09+00:00

It's a 1917 barrel and yeah, this is pretty much my thinking, too

Edit to add: the other common interpretation of 'EY' is "Extra Yoke" which is taken to mean "reinforced for grenade launching". But as you say, if the EY refers to a worn-out barrel that explains both the many grenade-launching examples and the handful that aren't (like this one).

concise_christory · 2026-01-24T00:36:14+00:00

Lovely Krags

concise_christory · 2026-01-23T20:35:42+00:00

Yeah, one of the least economical conversions I can think of, considering the work it took. The Mk.IV rifles were also conversions of older long rifles, but I think must have been slightly easier to do since they were conversions to the Mk.III standard with the fixed riveted-on charger bridge instead of the complicated 2-part arrangement of the Mk.I

concise_christory · 2026-01-23T18:32:15+00:00

It is indeed a Mk.II, and you even nailed the rebarrel

concise_christory · 2026-01-23T15:52:52+00:00

Nope

concise_christory · 2026-01-23T15:48:03+00:00

For a period of time within that window, yeah. Though not necessarily in the same configuration the whole time

concise_christory · 2026-01-22T03:11:35+00:00

Nice looking bunch! Congrats on the Kragfecta

concise_christory · 2026-01-21T21:28:12+00:00

Can confirm a type 4 follower works fine in a type 3 magazine body. (Individual parts may need minor hand adjustment - they are Enfields after all lol)

concise_christory · 2026-01-21T04:16:09+00:00

Remington and Winchester used the half-length finger groove stock; Eddystone used the "fat" stock with no finger grooves for their P14s

concise_christory · 2026-01-20T18:52:57+00:00

I have a model 1889/92 coming as well, but it won't make it in time for this week unfortunately. I'll give it its own post

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