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Lee-Enfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Lee-Enfield rifle was derived from the earlier Lee-Metford, a physically similar black powder rifle which combined James Paris Lee's rear-locking bolt system with a barrel featuring rifling designed by William Ellis Metford. Experiments with smokeless powder in the existing Lee-Metford cartridge seemed at first to be a simple upgrade, but the greater heat and pressures generated by the new cartridges proved to wear out the shallow, rounded, Metford rifling. Lee Enfields are still used by reserve forces and police forces in many Commonwealth countries, particularly India and Canada, where they are the main rifle issued to the Canadian Rangers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lee-Enfield   (2695 words)

RIFLE - LoveToKnow Article on RIFLE The Metford rifling is as follows :diameter of bore,.303 in.; depth of rifling, 004 in.; width of lands, 023 in.; twist of rifling, one turn in io in. The Metford barrel was also used in breech-loaders, and the duke of Cambridges prizefor the first time fired at 1000 yds.fell to it. The Metford match rifle was prominent in all N.R.A. competitions from 1871 to 1894. www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RI/RIFLE.htm   (11513 words)

Fine Sporting Collectables Ltd- A nickel foresight protector for a.303 Lee metford or Lee Enfield rifle. An unusual nickel rear sight protector for a.303 Lee Metford or Lee Enfield rifle. A nickel plated sight protector for a.303 Lee metford or Lee Enfield rifle. www.finesportingcollectablesltd.co.uk /sights.htm   (301 words)

James Paris Lee James Paris Lee was born at Harwich, Scotland, in 1831, the son of George Lee and Margaret Paris. The patents granted to the Lee rifle cited its breech-loading mechanism, the bolt action and the detachable magazine in front of the trigger guard. The lamp burned late in the shop window of James Lee, filing an awkward shape he called a rifle bolt, a bolt it was for well did it resemble the latch on the garden gate. www.pchswi.org /archives/indiv/jamesparislee.html   (954 words)

Wallaceburg and District Museum--Lee- Enfield Rifle Lee-Metford Magazine Rifle Mark II, with a magazine capacity of 10 rounds, this was the first volume produced military firearm employing the Lee bolt and magazine, and was used extensively in the Boer War. Lee claimed damages to the government, but was forced to close his shop. Bullets were fired from the Lee Brothers Foundry across the Sydenham river into an oak tree hundreds of yards away. www.kent.net /wallaceburg-museum/enfield.html   (554 words)

Lee-Metford - ARRSEpedia Came in both rifle and carbine flavours, and matched the Lee bolt-action to the Metford barrel. Metford designed a system of rifling that was particularly suited to small-calibre black-powder rifles: it consisted of 7 shallow, rounded grooves. This was found to be advantageous for both accuracy and fouling reasons, and was thus paired with the Lee action to produce the first in a series of rifles that would serve the British military from 1888 to the early 1990s. www.arrse.co.uk /wiki/index.php/Lee-Metford   (145 words)

IIID2a11a3.html Externally, the Lee Enfield was identical to the Lee Metford. Carbine, Magazine, Lee Enfield Mark I. Adopted in 1896, it was the same as the Lee Metford carbine except for the deeper rifling. Rifle, Magazine, Lee Enfield Mark I. Adopted in November 1895, this rifle was the first to introduce the deep Enfield rifling rather than the shallower Metford rifling. www.public.asu.edu /~roblewis/SMLE/IIID2a11a3.html   (2812 words)

Allied weapons of WW1 The.303 Lee Enfield rifle, introduced in 1895, was the main military service rifle of the British Empire and her Commonwealth countries for over 60 years, over this period of time it went through various upgrades and modifications. This rifle, known as the Short Magazine Lee Enfield, or SMLE was still Britain's service rifle in 1939 and was not declared obsolete and officially replaced until 1941 with another Lee Enfield, the No 4 rifle. The rifle originally introduced in 1895 was designed by James Paris Lee (1831-1904), a Scottish born firearms designer who worked chiefly in the USA and Canada. www.diggerhistory.info /pages-weapons/allied_ww1.htm   (957 words)

The .303 Rifle including Lee Enfield Developed during 1887 and officially adopted in 1888, it was so called because it utilised the turnbolt action and magazine developed by one James Paris Lee, and had Metford style rifling in the barrel. Early Lee rifles are frequently found with a peculiar rotating arm halfway down the left hand side of the fore-end, and a flip-up peep sight affair on the left rear portion of the receiver. I know that a Lee makes one of the word’s best knock-about general purpose rifles, and that cutting down the wooden fore-end makes the rifle lighter and handier, but I must admit to a preference for such rifles to be in original condition. www.diggerhistory.info /pages-weapons/303.htm   (6952 words)

scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions In 1888, prototype Lee magazine rifles were put on test, fitted with barrels featuring the seven-groove rifling of William E. Metford. The 'Lee' in Lee-Enfield is James Paris Lee, a Scottish-born arms inventor who perfected the design of the box magazine which allowed for the development of bolt-action repeating rifles. Lee's parents emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1835. www.scotlandonline.com /heritage/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=87   (496 words)

THR - Remington-Hepburn No 3 and Remington-Lee Bolt Action? It was very obviously a Lee product, and you could see the basic design that was later used in the British Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield. I never really fired it for accuracy, since the inside of the barrel was like unto a sewer pipe, the main reason I traded it off on another odd-wad, a Standard Model G which I still have. I thought that it was an advanced rifle for the 1880's, possibly too advanced, as bolt actions had not caught on at that time. www.thehighroad.org /printthread.php?t=58332   (353 words)

C:\Canuck pending\rifles.htm The new Lee Enfield had been adopted due to advances in bullet technology; the new cordite rounds developed by the British, which replaced the older black powder rounds that gave off much smoke when fired, also caused excessive wear of the Lee Metford's rifled barrel. Lee Enfield Mk I. Canada entered the 20th Century with the first of the Lee Enfield series of rifles with which it would be armed for the next 60 years (and with which the Canadian Rangers would remain armed well beyond that time). Lee Enfield Number 4 Mk I and Lee Enfield Number 4 Mk I* Canadian troops took the No. 4 Mk I into action for the first time on Sicily in July 1943, and the weapon remained in service in all theatres throughout the war. www.canadiansoldiers.com /weapons/rifles.htm   (1771 words)

Western Front Association Contributed Articles After trials and modifications, Lee's invention entered British Service in 1888 as the Lee-Metford Rifle. William Ellis Metford was the designer of the type of rifling used in this new weapon. The introduction in 1891 of cordite as a propellant, together with an improved bullet design, was found to shorten the accurate life of the Metford rifling. www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/weapons/lee-enfield1.htm   (516 words)

LeeEnfields A new rifling pattern was developed by Enfield and this began to replace the Metford with the adoption of the Lee-Enfield in 1895. The period of the Lee-Metford magazine rifle (adopted in 1888) overlapped the service life of the last of the Martini-Henry's (Mark IVs). The Lee-Metford is a 303 calibre, box magazine fed, bolt action repeating rifle. www.iap.net.au /~miklruss/Barracks/Armoury/LeeEnfields/leeenfields.html   (485 words)

Guns Magazine: Wonderful world of surplus arms: Part one: the Lee-Enfield - Surplus Locker One of the unique aspects of the Lee is that existing models were continually being rebuilt and upgraded throughout the serviceable life of the rifle. In fact the first Lees were produced by the Sharps Rifle Co. and later by Remington, which continued to make Remington-Lee military and sporting rifles until 1905. Its designer, James Paris Lee, a naturalized American citizen and Wisconsin based watchmaker and jeweler by trade, was a prolific firearms designer. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_1_50/ai_110470558   (1517 words)

The Lee Magazine Rifle England has lately adopted a small-bore - 0.303 inch calibre — modified Lee magazine rifle - a Lee with most of the strong points of the mechanism modified out - after making a long series of most amusing steps of development in order to reach the conclusion that this arm was suited to her needs. At last the Lee rifle, with its detach-able magazine, was tried, and, being found wanting, was improved backward into the Lee-Burton, an arm with a Lee bolt and a fixed under-barrel tubular magazine. But this arm was too absurd even for the conservative men who recommended it, and finally the small-bore Lee was regularly adopted. www.researchpress.co.uk /firearms/britain/lee/lee.htm   (509 words)

THR - Longest serving military firearm? The sniper version of the Lee Enfield in.308 (sorry can't remember what is's official nomenclature was) entered service in the fifties and was still being used into the late 1980's. I've come across information in the past that says there is a possibility the sniper Lee's were used in Desert Storm by the SAS, the SBS (Special Boat Service), the Royal Marine Commandos etc. That would put the Lee - Enfield at the century mark. The basic Lee action rifles served from 1895 or so till the mid 1950s. www.thehighroad.org /printthread.php?t=104767   (735 words)

Rifle The S.M.L.E was introduced in 1903 as an improvement over the Long Lee Enfield, which in turn had replaced the Lee Metford (Enfield and Metford describe the rifling used in the barrel, while Lee describes the action). The solution to the shortcomings of the Lee Enfield was the development of the SMLE ('Short' describes the length of the rifle, not the magazine). Problems had been encountered with the Long Lee Enfield during the Boer war. www.freewebs.com /themanchesters1914-18/Manchesterfiles/Rifle.htm   (487 words)

Modern Firearms - Rifle Short, Magazine, Lee-Enfield (SMLE) One notable feature of the Lee bolt action was that the bolts were not interchangeable between different rifles of the same mark Each bolt must have been fitted to its respective action, thus making the production and in-field bolt replacement more complicated. Introduction of the smokeless powders in the form of the Cordite showed that the Metford rifling was very short-living, so it was soon replaced with Enfield rifling, with 5 traditional land and grooves and left hand pitch. The Lee-Enfield series of rifles was born in 1895 as a marriage between the magazine and bolt action, designed by the J. Lee, and the new pattern of barrel rifling, designed at the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) at Enfield. world.guns.ru /rifle/rfl04-e.htm   (2090 words)

MLE.page The original Long Tom (1888) had Metford rifling, thus it was known as the Magazine Lee-Metford or MLM. It was found that Metford rifling could not handle the new hotter powder, resulting in erosion. The Lee-Enfield Magazine Rifle or "Magazine Lee-Enfield" (MLE), also known as the "Long Tom" was originally adopted by the British government in 1895. www.geocities.com /enfieldtrainers/MLE.html   (170 words)

REME Weapons Collection - British Service Rifles The Lee bolt action was first used in December 1888 but was fitted with a Metford rifling barrel. The life span of the Metford barrel was reduced from 10,000 to 4200 rounds, when barrels became completely unserviceable. Adopted in November 1895, it is a 'Lee' designed action with an 'Enfield Rifled' barrel. www.rememuseum.org.uk /arms/rifles/armbsr.htm   (2179 words)

LEE'S OF THE 19TH CENTURY Concurrent to the approval of the MLM's and the MLE's often referred to as Long Lee's was the approval of Carbine versions of these rifles, for use by the Cavalry and Artillery regiments. With the adoption of the SMLE, large numbers of Long Lee's were converted to the new pattern rifle. It would also cement James Paris Lee (1831-1904) into mainstream firearm history. enfields.freestarthost.com /ri1.htm   (677 words)

Lee- Enfield Bolt-Action Rifle The Lee-Enfield evoloved from the Lee-Metford rifle, and earlier black powder rifle which combined a locking bolt (designed by James Paris Lee) with a rifled barrel (designed by William Ellis Metford). Lee's design was a major improvement on previous bolt-action systems. The prescence of the bolt operating handle over the trigger made it much quicker to re-load than other bolt-action rifles. www.62infantry.com /Weapons_Equipment/Lee_Enfield_Rifle.shtml   (676 words)

JUNE 2004 - Johannesburg - South African Military History Society - Title page In 1888 the British introduced their.303-inch calibre Lee Metford rifle as a replacement for the Martini Henry single-shot rifle that had played such a prominent role in the previous Anglo-Zulu War. As a result of the defects that became apparent during this conflict the Long Lee Enfield was redesigned and emerged as the Short Magazine Lee Enfield, one of the most famous rifles of all time. The early Lee Enfields were found to have defective sighting, leading to an incident known to history as 'The Great Rifle Scandal'. rapidttp.com /milhist/4/04junnl.html   (1509 words)

Re: Attention Gun collecters This is 20 years after the Lee design went into production. It is based on James Paris Lee's design. His patents for the world's first magazine-fed rifle were taken out in 1877, and his first production rifle was adopted in 1879. www.usenet.com /newsgroups/rec.models.scale/msg06594.html   (148 words)

IIID2a11a2.html This rifle used Metford's segmental, shallow-land rifling, and was designed for the original.303 British loading, which used a compressed charge of black powder. The "Lee" in its name is for James Paris Lee, a Scottish-born American who patented the basic design of this action in 1879. Briefly, Lee submitted his design in the English 1887 rifle trials, where it performed best and was accepted. www.public.asu.edu /~roblewis/SMLE/IIID2a11a2.html   (6966 words)

The Lee-Enfield Rifle In fact, after more than a century since the initial adoption of Lee's bolt action into Her Majesty's Service, the basic design is still in commission in various configurations in Britain, India and some third world countries. In terms of the various numbers of Lee magazine rifles made, we have some quite accurate records. One British sniper, Corporal Cox, is on record for being able to consistently shoot a man-sized target through the head at 1,000 metres with the L42A1. thegrizz.info /_wsn/page4.html   (731 words)

Collectible Antique Longarms Catalog Starting off as a Lee Metford Mark I it was upgraded to a Mark I* by removal of the safety and replacing the Lewes sights with more conventional barleycorn and V notch type. The 30 inche barrel and volley sights were carried on to the Long Lee Enfields and the major changeothet thanthe magazines was the use of Metford style rifling in the Lee Metfore, and Enfield style rifling int he Lee Enfield. While not a beautiful rifle these are pretty scarce, and I have only seen a handful of Lee Metfords over the years, even though several friends collect Enfields. oldguns.net /cat_fa_antique_long.htm   (6458 words)

Gunboards - Lee Metford MkII This MLM has the most beautiful bore I have seen on a metford. Lee Enfield - 22 Caliber Forums & English Gun Pub I would have included more pics but I prefer daylight for that. www.gunboards.com /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=95801   (260 words)

The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (G-O) The Lee straight pull is a US straight-pull operated rifle issued to the navy in 1895. As with the M3 Lee an additional machine gun was usually fitted to the commander's cupola. The Lee Enfield is a series of British rifles. www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F4.HTM   (15666 words)

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