Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Lee–Enfield family of rifles is the second oldest bolt-action rifle design still in official service, after the Mosin–Nagant. [13] Lee–Enfield rifles are used by reserve forces and police forces in many Commonwealth countries, including Malawi. In Canada the .303 and .22 models were being phased out between 2016 and 2019.
The M1917 Enfield, the "American Enfield", formally named "United States Rifle, cal .30, Model of 1917" is an American modification and production of the .303-inch (7.7 mm) Pattern 1914 Enfield (P14) rifle (listed in British Service as Rifle No. 3), which was developed and manufactured during the period 1917–1918.
The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket (also known as the Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867; after which many were replaced in service by the cartridge-loaded Snider–Enfield rifle.
It was a bolt-action weapon with an integral 5-round magazine. It served as a sniper rifle and as second-line and reserve issue, until declared obsolete in 1947. [citation needed] The Pattern 1914 Enfield was the successor to the Pattern 1913 Enfield experimental rifle and the predecessor of the U.S. Rifle M1917 Enfield.
Lee–Enfield rifles - using the Lee bolt action. There were 13 variants from 1895 to 1957. Pattern 1913 Enfield.276 Enfield experimental rifle, 1913; Pattern 1914 Enfield Rifle: intended as a Lee–Enfield replacement, mainly used by snipers in World War I. Bren (Brno + Enfield), .303 Light machine gun from 1935 onwards. Sten (Shepherd, Turpin ...
The Pattern 1861 Enfield musketoon was a short-barrel version (610 mm or 24 inches) of the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket, having a faster rifling twist rate (1:48 versus 1:78), along with more rifling grooves (five grooves versus the Pattern 1853's three grooves), which made it as accurate as the rifle at shorter ranges. The much shorter ...
The Snider–Enfield was produced in several variants. The most commonly encountered variants were the Rifled Musket or Long Rifle, the Short Rifle, and the Cavalry and Artillery Carbines. The Long Rifle has a 36 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch (93 cm) barrel and three barrel bands.
The rifle was distributed to the army as the Rifle, Magazine, Enfield, .276-inch. The troop trial rifles left handed rifling twist rate was 10 in (254 mm) , 5 grooves, groove depth .005 inches (0.127 mm) land width .09352 inches (2.375 mm). The trials took place in Britain, Ireland, Egypt and South Africa and at the end, the Chief Inspector of ...