Update 16th March 2022— 

• Our new YouTube page... recent clips include 9mm Owen and Austen -
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsXBwYCDZac&ab_channel=IanSkennerton
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufih0bBRZQ0&ab_channel=IanSkennerton 
  
  Subscribe to our YouTube channel if you want to see new clips...

• New online site with Collecting column. Our first article...
  https://straightshooting.com.au/category/history/ 

• UPDATE...
  
  
  'Broad Arrow Mk 2' hard and soft cover editions, Presentation edition only available from Oregon as they sold out in Oz, NZ and UK. Soft covers only in Oz, NZ & UK. Some out-of-print Handbooks, AR15 and Mosin-Nagant were also reprinted, now available again.
  The Broad Arrow - Our 2020 edition was available from September. Don't pay over US$1,000 for an old  2001 edition, the Mk 2 is bigger and better! 
  
  
  
  Prices: US$50 (A$70) soft cover, US$100 (A$135) Presentation HC edition with Resources CD enclosed. Separately, CD is $10.00. Updated, improved edition with larger page size, 20+ more pages, illustrations, colour plates. Limited number of HC Presentation copies remain so don't delay.
  Resources CD has folders of photos & pdf files with much more detail
  

•   Wilson Carbine in Tasmania  ...  ...  

  Limited print run of only 150 hard cover copies, A4 size, 150 pages in glorious colour, details of issues, known specimens, tables, &c. by Mark Wright.
  This rare capping-breech loader saw colonial service in only one colony, Tasmania. Don't miss out... $90- $100 post-paid for Australia.
  Order from Mark - 0409 341 280...  jo.markwright@yahoo.com.au
  Mark Wright - 1b Ellice Hill Drive, Spreyton, TAS 7310
  
  

• Check out https://booksonwaraustralia.com/ for what has to be the widest array of military & unit history, campaigns, weapons & equipment books in the Southern Hemisphere. Contact Trev if you have any special inquiries, he is 'hands-on' and in direct contact with his many satisfied customers.

• 
  West Australian auctions for arms & militaria in Morley, Perth.
  Check out www.jbmilitaryantiques.com.au/auction/jb-mliitary-antiques-auctions/ 
  Lots are being accepted now for the next one. Call Jamey Blewitt, JB Military Antiques, 2/135 Russell St., Morley, WA 6062. Tel: +61 (08) 9276 5113
  

• Lee-Enfield shooters - LERA (Lee-Enfield Rifle Association of Australia) shoots at Hill End in country NSW. www.leraa.com Facebook page is www.facebook.com/groups/1721669698132136/  Enfields rule!

• www.greenhillbooks.com has a good range of reasonably priced books on weapons, campaigns and general military. 'Lady Death', memoirs of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, famous Russian sniper. The 2019 printing of 'The Sniper Encyclopedia' by John Walter is recommended, I assisted with editing. See the Pen & Sword titles, search 'Sniper' for some other related titles of interest.
  www.pen-and-sword.co.uk and search for sniper, weapons, &c.   

• Replacement barrels on Lithgow rifles can be determined by the number of inspection marks around the breech, 'A' in a star with inspector's no. below. Barrels have 4 view stamps around the breech circumference. A 5th was added after inspection, screwed into the action body. So later replacement barrels can be determined, usually a replacement serial no. was stamped when fitted during FTR, at ordnance depot or by field armourer.
  
  1st proof of the barrel was done in a proof block jig, 2nd proof with barrel breeched up to action body. Barrels were dated on the left side with year, e.g. '17 and serial nos. were added after they were mated up to action body when the rifle was assembled. So now you know!

• New 'Collector' index on the huge range of articles for the 30 quarterly and annual series. See Collector index for quarterlies $5, annuals $20 plus p&p. Bulk discounts available or the full set for A$140.

• Lee-Enfield parts & armourers charts we have for sale:  Ian's - For Sale page

• New 'Sword-bayonet Pattern 1907 in British Service' by Michael Rose. First of 3 volumes, for 1907-1914. Follows Michael's series on Patt. 1888 & Patt. 1903 bayonets. pb, 210 pages, well illustrated, compiled resource material. E-mail Michael fam.rose5@bigpond.com $55 plus $13 postage (Australia).

• 'No Front Line', Masters on Australian Special Forces, Afghanistan, p.461-2 records kill at 2,815m by Pte. Henry & L/Cpl. Steve with Barrett M82A1s near Keshmeshkhan on 2/4/2012. Recent report of Canadian Joint Task Force 2 neutralising Islamist insurgents at 3,540m in June 2017. 50 BMG rules!

• Don't pay so much for out-of-print e.g. .303 No.4(T) Armourers Perspective!
  Our new CD has pdf files including 'British Sniper', L42A1 & L39A1 Manuals & Parts Catalogue, Faris catalogue, photo folders, video clips. We'll do a CD on out-of-print S.A.I.S. titles soon. $25 plus p&p... $6 in Oz, $10 overseas.
  
    

• Full On - Full Auto 1 - British & US Machineguns - 70 min. run time DVD
  
       $25.00 + $8 p&p, $12 o'seas.
  'Full Auto 2 - German & Comblock MGs' is now available.
  'SLR, the FAL with Kevin Adams' is out as well.

• 30 Years - From piano & synths to film.
    Music CD by Ian Skennerton, $9.50 plus p&p.
  Run time c.80 minutes, mostly classical piano; synthesisers near the end.

• Small Arms Series Live DVD SMLE trailer from Badger at Milsurps Forum.
  Click strip to download 8 min. trailer, well worth the wait!   

• Brian Labudda, Wondai shop... Bigger, even more militaria, parts, antiques, &c. Wondai Q.4606, main street (11-13 Scott St.). Old service station on corner, last on the left headed north, or 1st on the right going south on Bunya Highway (49) from Kingaroy. PO Box 770, Kingaroy 4610. Mob 0400 625 366

• More on Serial Number Stamps on Lee-Enfields...
  When MLM, MLE & SMLE rifles left the factory, serials were usually stamped only on the action body, barrel (right side of knox form) and bolt handle. Base Ordnance Depots, workshops and armourers generally transcribed serials onto underside of the sight leaf, fore-end (SMLE only) and nosecap (SMLE only). Such stamps are usually different sizes to those on the body and barrel.
  
  For MLM, MLE and early SMLEs, action bodies started with a progressive lot letter (no prefix at first then A thru' Z) prior to numbers being stamped, so the letter can appear above or below the numbers as a suffix or prefix on the earlier rifles and carbines. Letter prefix/suffix was often not recorded in factory records, such as the sniper rifle conversion lists at Lithgow. Detailed serial no. lists are found in our Research CD for the S.M.L.E.  

• Shortened SMLE's... We've noted shortened SMLE's in UK museums listed as 'jungle rifles', unlike Lithgow Shortened & Lightened (20.2-in. brl.) they are converted or modified downgraded SMLE rifles. Pre-dating Far East needs, they're not 'jungle rifles'. Examination leads us to believe they were modified at Base Ordnance Depots, some parts are unnumbered, spares or cannibalised.
  
  Some AFV schedules have rifles but fitting prevents a 44.5-in. SMLE. Pre-WW2, this only leaves a shortened No.1, by about 5-ins. A short rifle in Faris collection lead us to conclude that the requirement would be for AFV during WW2 when his was modified from a 1941 Lithgow.  'Tanker' models extend well beyond the British realm. After the word spreads, beware of fakes!

• Courtesy of Ian Kuring, author of 'Redcoats to Cams'. Ian sent us pics from the Enfield housing estate. With original RSAF Enfield building preserved, this plaque is a fitting tribute to Herb Woodend, now dispayed outside.

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• Check our www.enfieldcollector.com site; eventually there will be pages on .577 Enfield, Snider-Enfield, Martini, MLM & MLE, SMLE, Rifle No.4, &c.

DVD & CD set $35.00

DVD & CD set $35.00

DVD & CD set $25.00

DVD & CD set $35

DVD & CD set $35

DVD only $19.50

#23 L-E Parts Catalog

WinM1892

Ruger10/22

Schmidt-Rubin

NOW ~~~  Small Arms Identification Series   last series titles ... US$10.00 ea.
SAIS #22 British Empire Sniper Rifles with parts, line drawings, mounts & scopes.
New information on the Canadian, Australian & Indian conversions.
SAIS #23 Lee-Enfield Parts Catalogue shows MLM, MLE, SMLE, No.4, No.5 & .22 rifle parts by items. Side by side comparisons: bodies, bolts, sights, nosecaps, furniture, &c.
SAIS #24 9mm Sten Mk V, VI & II(S) to complement SAIS #11 on the Mk I, II & III Sten models. This is the final booklet in our Small Arms Identification Series manuals.