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Lee Enfield Short Club Pattern Rifles?
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:41 am
by Niner
Saw this advertisement from SOG. Reminded me of some things said and posted in the Forestry Rifle string.
Looks like this is some kind of modified "club pattern". Looks like Long Lees and SMLE's hacked to look like the original club patterns. Kind of a bubba model of a bubba model.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:18 pm
by Woftam
Sounds like advertising b******t to me. The Long Lees in Aus were cut down because rifle club rules mandated 25 inch barrels, the length of the current service arm the SMLE, not barrel lengths less than 26 inches.
While the shortened Long Lees are a recognised variant an SMLE with the woodwork cut as per the picture isn't. SMLE's "made to this configuration" are bubba jobs.
The ad also sounds like they took original Long Lees and chopped them - sacrilege
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:36 pm
by pneps
No, this is SOG's latest attempt to flog off a bunch of unsafe Kyhber Pass rifles as something collectible.
If you notice the ad does not say where or when these rifles were done.
SOG has been stuck with these rifles and a batch of Khyber Martinis for awhile.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:40 pm
by coggansfield
13 Dec. 2007
7:35pm
Pneps is correct. I have seen dozens of these KP pieces of crap. They are cut down CLLE mk. I* rifles, cobbled together with a bunch of SMLE and native-made parts.
Australian pattern club rifles do NOT have charger bridges, CLLE windguage rear sights and wings for the front sight. (Take a close look at the picture.)
If in my business I told as many "economies with the truth" as SOG does in its, I would have gone to prison a long time ago. All US collectors should outright boycott SOG for the indefinite future.
Coggansfield