I’m laying on my bed, after texting back and forth with my uncle Ron from New Zealand. We both were talking about how good it would be one owning an original World War 2 Lee Enfield No4 (T) sniper rifle one day.
Uncle Ron has always wanted one for his collection. My dad’s uncle was a sniper in the Second World War and used one of these rifles. He actually told my uncle the serial number one but my uncle never wrote it down. Can you imagine what an awesome feeling it would be to actually tack down that rifle. I suspect virtually impossible but what isn’t is trying to find an original sniper rifle of the same model. Not impossible but definitely very difficult says my Uncle.
As people get standard Lee Enfield No.4 models, Slap a check rest on them and put a old original scopes on them to try and pass them as original sniper rifles. I’m not picky, perhaps it would be cool to get a Lee No4 for myself and make up a sniper rifle recreation for my own collection. never passing it off as original of cause. maybe a cool project in the future. In fact that’s basically how they were originally made in the first place. they would find particularly accurate No4’s and slap a scope on them and put a cheek rest on… and done. you have yourself a model T.
Never the less if I do that in the future I will be sure to post it here for you all to see.
Baker arms collection 