That Enfield 303 has gone through some considerable restoration, some very fine work too, I might add. Back around 67-68, Montgomery Wards had a huge mail order supply in Ft Worth. We lived there then, my Dad had a custom cabinet shop there. He'd take us deer hunting every year, Thanksgiving week was spent camping in the mountains. Somehow he happened upon a sale at Wards, they had 303 Enfields in their original crates, apparently selling them off at a great price, he bought us all one. They were well packed in the crates, suited for shipping and storage, but you could still see the age on them. They had full length stocks like yours does, but he cut mine down to where it was about like the Marlin there. His brother, my uncle, was an aircraft mechanic and took the barrel and blued it. It was an awesome looking little gun. I ran with some neighborhood kids who weren't the most honest kids around, although they were most times decent buddies. We were gone once for about a week, and when we got home, it had been stolen. I didn't know who might have taken it, but time went by, and eventually another friend(from another background totally) told me it had been a guy from his hood, who had been messing around in ours at that time, and that he'd got in trouble, and police in their burb had it, and all I'd have to do to get it back was walk in there and tell em it was mine, which I never did. That's a shame too, because it was great rifle.
Anyway, all I'm saying is I know those guns fairly well, and yours has been painfully restored, or kept in a museum ; )
Good luck with it Cory, I hope it pans out to mere suspicion : )
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Originally Posted by pcscrapper
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