Milsurp After Hours

Hello all,

I'm new to this board and pretty new to enfields. I collect MKIIIs' and do WWI reanacting. Here is my dilema, 303 blanks are getting toooo expensive and 308 is cheap. I turned a 2A into a WWI MKIII even the clip. Am I being uncaring?

If the guys you re-enact with don't care that the 2A didn't come around until the early 1960's why worry?

Well it wasn't so much it being made in the 60's. If you look at the 2A from a foot away, you can't tell the difference with me using the MKIII parts.I'm starting to see these jump up in price. Is this because of the way they shoot or the collectors value?

I belive it's the ammo thats now causing a jump in price .308 can be had at the walmart so much cheaper.

That's the reason for the value increase. Some had been butchered for sporters by various companies too, like Navy Arms for one.

According to Lt. Col.Edwards in one article he wrote, there were only 125,000 2A's and 275,000 2A1's ever made. I know that sounds like a lot, but those destroyed, modified, in collections, still in third world countries.. makes the available to collect numbers relatively slim.

I have 4 so far. I don't know if this is uncommon but I have 2 with no import stamps. My main collecting is WWI mkIIIs' though. I have 7 of them so far.