Video: Surplus Release: Enfield #4 - What A Find!

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Hey everybody. Ben with Classic Firearms here. Today is Wednesday, July the 12th. And we are so proud to be able to bring you what I'm about to show you today. You know, yesterday I gave a little teaser and said be sure to tune in today. A few weeks ago we had some British Enfields. Had you asked me at that time when we would see any more of these, I would have told you maybe never. I had not seen any in years. Had no idea where we would find more. But thanks to our customer base and thanks to our outreach, things continue to pop up for us thanks to the good Lord, we're very blessed to be able to find this kind of stuff. We have some collections. We found a small collection of these Enfields later in the week, and I don't mean to get ahead of myself. We have a private collection that a gentleman actually drove up here from Ohio and brought us a private collection yesterday. That will be on some US surplus. But today we're gonna focus on these Enfields. This is the workhorse and the pride of the United Kingdom. The 303 British Enfield. This is the #1 MK4. These rifles have probably seen more action on more continents than any other battle implement ever made. You know, the British dominated so many places in the world from India to Africa with colonization and so forth, so you've seen these in different hot spots around the world for years and years and years. They've probably taken more African big game than any other rifle in existence, just because of their resistance in the African continent for so many years. Highly sought after by collectors. We had a few of these a couple of weeks ago. The response was dramatic. So much so that when we did a noon release on them it kinda bogged our system down a little bit, and a lot of people were unhappy us. But we have a few more of these this time than we had last time. Not only do we have a few more, but Dylan's running the camera. Dylan, come in and scan the table. This is gonna be a good sampling of the condition that we have. Certainly not perfect. I've never seen a perfect Enfield. They just saw too much action. But by Enfield standards these are very nice, and head and shoulders above anything that I've seen in the recent past. Most of the things that we've seen recently have had very dark stocks, a lot of ingrained cosmeline that have made the stocks dark. Let me say that properly. But overall, and this is a good sampling. We've got eight or 10 here on the table. And it is a good representation of what I think you're gonna see overall on the small but very nice collection of Enfields that we received this time. Dylan, I'm gonna let you scan and give these the attention that we deserve. When I had the guy set up the table for me, I said, "Guys, pull eight or 10 at random. Be sure it's a really good sampling of what you see there." They set them up on the table from lightest to darkest, as far as the stocks were concerned. So we have a few here with some really light stocks. And you can see as they go to the end of the table we will have some more with the darker stocks. We decided not to do a hand pick on these, folks. The reason being, on Enfield rifles and surplus in general a lot of times, but particularly on Enfields, the hand pick or the quality is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes we'll have a beautiful stock, but a lot more blueing wear. Sometimes we'll have a really dark blued rifle such as this one right here. But the stock is not quite as nice. Different people put different importance on different aspects on the condition of their rifle. So we've just decided to call it luck of the draw. We don't have a large lot of these, but by the same token I think more people are gonna have a shot at these than they had last time. And it's a little better group. Let me show you the one rifle here that sticks out to me for some reason. Again, this is a good sampling. I've got one of these Enfields here. Dylan is scanning it. When we get up to the receiving I'll show you what I was gonna talk about. The receiver on this one appears to have been highly polished. Very little blueing left right there at the receiver. I don't know if they were polishing off a mark, or whatever. But you can see that appears to be almost stainless. It's not pitted, it's not down into the metal, but it does get through the blueing right there. That's representative of one gun. Otherwise, I've seen nothing quite like that. Anyway folks, we're convinced these are gonna sell fast. We're holding the line at the same pricing we did last time, although I think the condition is much greater on these. And we're gonna release them at noon tomorrow. So here's the deal. $699.99 on a nice #1 MK4 British Enfield. $699.99. Today is Wednesday. We're gonna release these Thursday at noon. So if you want one, be lined up. Don't call us. If you call in, it's gonna be too late. By the time the customer service reps can take the order and go through the order process, which is the very same order process that you use, it's probably gonna be too late. These things do go fast. But again we've got a little higher quantity that we had before. So I think you'll have a good shot if you come online. Very collectable. Very nice lot of British Enfields, releasing tomorrow at noon at $699.99. Folks, if you like our videos and want them to come directly to you, just click on this button right here and subscribe. As always, we appreciate your business. God bless, and thank you for being with us at www.classicfirearms.com.