It comes with one total, matching 10 round box magazine. Optics are clear and drums move freely. Scope number does not match number stamped on rifle or on mount. 8 carrying can with separate leather strap. III scope is AK&S 1944 manufacture in No. The comb is fitted with a field replacement (oak type) cheekpiece held on with two wooden screws. Original 1944 BSA Shirley (M47C) manufactured rifle TR marked when selected for accuracy and converted to sniper configuration by Holland and Holland (S51). The underside of the buttstock is stamped with the standard maker's "S51" with the top flat area of the wrist stamped with another scope serial number, of "19539"? The forestock is correctly stamped with the matching serial number "30140" with various British inspection and acceptance proofs, over a Broad Arrow proof. It has its matching numbered bolt, along with the standard stamped barrel bands. The scope rings are stamped "393E and 394E" respectively. The mount has a faint "N92" maker's mark with the rifle serial number (M30140) hand stamped on the side above the rear locking screw. Rack or issue numbers were stamped on the right side of the butt, or marking.
The scope has the standard British post and cross hair reticle pattern, along with the original leather lens covers. Enfield 303 Serial Number Lookup Lee Enfield Serial Number Database Query Over the past several months, Enfield Rifle Research has received dozens of questions about the spate of 'new' and 'rare' Lee-Enfields that have been showing up lately at gun shows and in pawn shops. Recording of serial numbers for Enfield muskets.577 Sniders and.450 &.303 Martini rifles & carbines is essential for your own records (insurance, registers, &c.) however the numbers stamped on the butt or even on action bodies are rarely the firearms serial number. The receiver side wall is faintly marked "No.
These rifles were used through out WWII into the early 1960s, until the British fielded the L42 series sniper rifles. This is a fine example of an early 1943 dated WWII British Enfield No.