Original British P-1853 Three Band Enfield type Rifle - Untouched Full Stock Parts Gun with Bayonet Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets was obsolete by the time

was obsolete by the time it was introduced

The British were also critical saying that the receiver could be bent and the bolt locked up by the mere act of knocking a leaning rifle onto a hard floor

that for parade use

These all conjure up images of derring-do in far flung Empire

original barrel bands

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