Anybody else see "Spy Games" and notice the Enfield sniper rifle they were using in the opening segment?

If I were a CIA operative doing an extra-legal op and didn't want to leave a "signature" if my team was blown, that would be my choice of weapon....

Well there, 120mm, old buddy, I would too if the bolt weren't on the wrong side! I'll take an auto loader thank you, perferably a PSG I, if not, then a Dragunov. If he's over 800 meters away any way, it'd call for an IED.

I've read in more than one publication that the Enfield NO. 4, MK I (T) was the best all around sniper rifle to be issued during WW II. It was exceptionally accurate (Yah!) and fast shooting.

I'm plotting on trying to get my fingers on one, but it's in Arkansas. Blah.

And yea, I noticed it. I thought it was cool of the prop people to use something other than the generic crap they usually use.

The mother of a Marine that didn't make it home came through our airport today. She was going to bring him home. Those of us who were around are, well, we feel her loss. Shit. He was 19. Shit.

Watch your back.

There is an Ishapore in my closet that is fairly begging to be "converted" into an L42A1.

I have always found it to be sort of ironic that so many people tell us that any rifle with a two piece stock "just can't be as accurate as a one-piece, etc." I think the old Enfield fairly well puts the lie to that theory, don't you?

The Enfield/L42 type rifles are fairly well known for their accuracy and reliability, I however do not remember the limit of their ranges. The Parker-Hale rifles that the Brits are using now surpass the Enfield type rifles and they are known to be accurate to about 1000 yards. The Parker-Hales are a very nice one piece set-up.

I'm sure the L-42 can still be found as the Parker-Hales ain't cheap, and it takes awhile for "the good stuff" to get to everybody. It's kind of funny, most services have decent sniper rifles, but for some reason (I hear), our M-24 Remington is the one everyone wants.

I think converting an Ishapore to a L42A1 is a swell idea.

The P-H is an Enfield variant. And firearms you see in movies, don't count. Isn't that the movie they kept calling the rifle a Springfield or some such foolihness?

I just want the geiger-counter optics

The Enfield had it's day in Long Range Competition due it being able to be regulated to shoot the poor quality ball ammo fairly accurately at long range. But it's been at least 20+ years since they were truly competitive.

While it is still seen on occasion in Palma type competition, it has been far eclipsed by the modern bolt actions such as the RPA/Quadlock, and even the Remington/Winchesters/Barnhard/Sportco's etc.

[ 10-14-2003, 23:27: Message edited by: Chris F ]

The Mk 32 scope had a ballistic compensater that was calibrated to 1000 yards.